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Argument Realization in Baltic
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The third volume in the VARGReB series explores different aspects of varying argument realization in Baltic. It presents original studies on differential marking of both core and non-core verbal arguments, on argument structures of nouns and the encoding of nominal arguments, as well as on constructions reflecting the expansion of argument structure through the addition of causative, resultative or applicative predications. The discussion of phenomena of argument realization and marking often touches on fundamental problems of syntax and the syntax-semantics interface, such as the putative locality of case assignment, event-structural factors determining case marking, the inheritance of argument structure across phrase types, or the status of arguments and adjuncts. The contributions to this volume use different approaches and frameworks to analyze a wealth of authentic data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.
[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 3] 2016. vii, 560 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 22 January 2016
Published online on 22 January 2016
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Variation in argument realization in Baltic: An overviewAxel Holvoet and Nicole Nau
- PART I. Case marking and case alternations
- Long-distance Genitive of Negation in LithuanianPeter Arkadiev
- Argument marking in Baltic and Slavonic pain-verb constructionsAxel Holvoet
- Variable argument realization in Lithuanian impersonalsJames E. Lavine
- The nominative case in Baltic in a typological perspectiveIlja A. Seržant
- Differential Argument Marking with the Latvian debitive: A multifactorial analysisIlja A. Seržant and Jana Taperte
- Contexts for the choice of genitive vs. instrumental in contemporary LithuanianBjörn Wiemer and Vaiva Žeimantienė
- The directive/locative alternation in Lithuanian and elsewhereNatalia M. Zaika
- Part II.. Extending argument structure
- Verbal prefixation and argument structure in LithuanianKirill Kozhanov
- Resultative secondary predicates in the Baltic languagesBenita Riaubienė
- On periphrastic causative constructions in Lithuanian and LatvianJurgis Pakerys
- PART III. Nominalizations and their argument structure
- Argument realization in Latvian action nominal constructions: A corpus and text based investigationNicole Nau
- Lithuanian nominalizations and the case marking of their argumentsNatalia Zaika M.
- Language index
- Name index
- Subject index
“This high-quality volume builds directly on the success of the two previous volumes and provides us with more evidence why valency, argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic merit a publication series of their own. The book offers lots of interesting actual data collected from corpora and gives the reader many fresh ideas on argument realization. The book should thus definitely be found on the bookshelf of any linguist interested in learning more about argument realization in general and in languages that have not gained that much attention in typological research thus far.”
Seppo Kittilä, University of Helsinki
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