Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions
Edited by Katarzyna Janic and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
[Typological Studies in Language, 130] 2021. vii, 645 pp.
Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alena Witzlack-Makarevich plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations
Edited by Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Balthasar Bickel
[Typological Studies in Language, 123] 2019. vi, 536 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2022 Linguistic variation in customer reviews: One’s own vs. another’s experience narrative Register and social media, Clarke, Isobelle and Jack Grieve (eds.), pp. 288–322 | Article
Informed by the framework of register analysis (Biber & Egbert 2018) and narrative analysis (Labov & Waletzky 1967), this paper studies customer reviews of assistive reading devices to identify intra-register variation between narratives of one’s own and another’s experience. The… read more
2021 Chapter 1. The multifaceted nature of the antipassive construction Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.), pp. 1–40 | Chapter
The present chapter opens the volume by proving an overview of the antipassive construction from the typological perspective. After setting the scene by introducing the major theoretical concepts used in this volume, we consider various aspects of the formal and functional variation of the… read more
2019 Argument selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations. An introduction Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations, Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena and Balthasar Bickel (eds.), pp. 1–38 | Chapter
This article opens a volume of detailed descriptions of grammatical relations in thirteen languages. It begins by outlining new developments in the research on grammatical relations in the recent years. It then introduces the framework for studying and describing grammatical relations developed in… read more
2016 Semantic role clustering: An empirical assessment of semantic role types in non-default case assignment Advances in Research on Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 51–78 | Article
This chapter seeks to determine to what extent there is cross-linguistic evidence for postulating clusters of predicate-specific semantic roles such as experiencer, cognizer, possessor, etc. For this, we survey non-default case assignments in a sample of 141 languages and annotate the associated… read more
2014 Semantic role clustering: An empirical assessment of semantic role types in non-default case assignment Advances in research on semantic roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 485–511 | Article
This paper seeks to determine to what extent there is cross-linguistic evidence for postulating clusters of predicate-specific semantic roles such as experiencer, cognizer, possessor, etc. For this, we survey non-default case assignments in a sample of 141 languages and annotate the associated… read more