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.
Title
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2021. Äiwoo wâtu and the typology of comparatives. Studies in Language 45:4, pp. 938–967
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 | Article
2017. Beyond roots and affixes: Äiwoo deverbal nominals and the typology of bound lexical morphemes. Studies in Language 41:4, pp. 914–955
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 morphemes,… read more | Article
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
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 | Article
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
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 | Article
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
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