Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles
Edited by Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski
[Typological Studies in Language, 99] 2011. vi, 354 pp.
Katja Västi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Katja Västi plays a role.
Title
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2016 Semantic roles and verbless constructions: A Finnish challenge for verb-centered approaches Advances in Research on Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 79–108 | Article
Semantic roles constitute one of the most notorious notions in linguistics because they have been defined in numerous ways depending on the author’s theoretical framework and goals. Typically these definitions are somehow, more or less explicitly, based on verbs and their properties. In this… read more
2014 Semantic roles and verbless constructions: A Finnish challenge for verb-centered approaches Advances in research on semantic roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 512–542 | Article
Semantic roles constitute one of the most notorious notions in linguistics because they have been defined in numerous ways depending on the author’s theoretical framework and goals. Typically these definitions are somehow, more or less explicitly, based on verbs and their properties. In this… read more
2011 Introduction to case, animacy and semantic roles Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
2011 A case in search of an independent life: The semantics of the initial allative in a Finnish verbless construction Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski (eds.), pp. 65–110 | Article
The present study discusses senses of the Finnish verbless allative-initial construction with particular attention to the allative element. I argue that the construction under investigation cannot be defined as an elliptic structure, but rather is an independent and genuinely verbless construction… read more