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Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles
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The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these chapters primarily deal with lesser studied phenomena, such as animacy effects on spatial cases and the differences between cases and adpositions in the coding of spatial relations. In addition, theoretical and diachronic issues related to case and semantic roles are also discussed; for example, what is case, how do cases develop and what are the functional differences between cases and adpositions? The chapters deal with a variety of different languages including Uralic languages, Indo-European languages, Basque, Korean and Vaeakau-Taumako. The book is appealing to anyone interested in case, animacy and/or semantic roles.
[Typological Studies in Language, 99] 2011. vi, 354 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 27 September 2011
Published online on 27 September 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Introduction to case, animacy and semantic rolesSeppo Kittilä, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski | pp. 1–26
- Remarks on the coding of Goal, Recipient and Vicinal Goal in European UralicSeppo Kittilä and Jussi Ylikoski | pp. 29–64
- A case in search of an independent life: The semantics of the initial allative in a Finnish verbless constructionKatja Västi | pp. 65–110
- The division of labour between synonymous locative cases and adpositions: The Estonian adessive and the adposition peal ‘on’Jane Klavan, Kaisa Kesküla and Laura Ojava | pp. 111–134
- Is there a future for the Finnish comitative? Arguments against the putative synonymy of the comitative case -ine and the postposition kanssaMaija Sirola-Belliard | pp. 135–154
- Animacy and spatial cases: Typological tendencies, and the case of BasqueDenis Creissels and Céline Mounole | pp. 157–182
- There’s more than “more animate”: The Organization/Document Construction in KoreanJae Jung Song | pp. 183–206
- The coding of spatial relations with human landmarks: From Latin to RomanceSilvia Luraghi | pp. 207–234
- A survey of the origins of directional case suffixes in European UralicJussi Ylikoski | pp. 235–280
- Dutch spatial caseSander Lestrade | pp. 281–304
- Case on the margins: Pragmatics and argument marking in Vaeakau-Taumako and beyondÅshild Næss | pp. 305–328
- Why should beneficiaries be subjects (or objects)? Affaction and grammatical relationsFernando Zúñiga | pp. 329–348
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