Prototypical Transitivity
Åshild Næss
[Typological Studies in Language, 72] 2007. x, 240 pp.
Åshild Næss
List of John Benjamins publications for which Åshild Næss plays a role.
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Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
2024 Voice and transitivity in Äiwoo and Engdewu: A case study in alignment change Studies in Language: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper examines the structural and functional links between symmetrical voice systems, typologically unusual and characteristic of western Austronesian languages, and systems of accusative alignment. It compares the clausal patterns of two closely related languages, Äiwoo and Engdewu, where… read more
2021 Äiwoo wâtu and the typology of comparatives Studies in Language 45:4, pp. 938–967 | Article
This paper examines a comparative construction in the Oceanic language Äiwoo and argues that it differs from those known in the typological literature on comparatives on two counts. It is similar to a so-called ‘exceed’ comparative in involving a morpheme meaning ‘go far’; but unlike canonical… read more
2017 Beyond roots and affixes: Äiwoo deverbal nominals and the typology of bound lexical morphemes Studies in Language 41:4, pp. 914–955 | Article
This paper discusses the analysis of a particular class of morphemes in the Oceanic language Äiwoo, and argues that the difficulties in accounting for them in traditional terms such as nominalisation, compounding, relative clauses, or classifiers is due to their status as bound lexical… read more
2011 Case on the margins: Pragmatics and argument marking in Vaeakau-Taumako and beyond Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski (eds.), pp. 305–328 | Article
This paper examines the argument-marking system in the Polynesian language Vaeakau-Taumako, which has pragmatically related functions similar to those found e.g. in so-called Differential Object Marking systems, but which does not refer to syntactic relations or semantic roles, the functions… read more
2010 Review of Butler & Arista (2008): Deconstructing Constructions Studies in Language 34:4, pp. 934–942 | Review
2009 How transitive are 'eat' and 'drink' verbs? The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 27–43 | Article
This paper examines the transitivity properties of eat and drink verbs crosslinguistically, and shows that they tend not to pattern with prototypical transitive verbs, but show various properties characteristic of intransitives. This is explained in terms of the transitivity model developed in Næss… read more
2006 Case semantics and the agent-patient opposition Case, Valency and Transitivity, Kulikov, Leonid, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart (eds.), pp. 309–327 | Article