Åshild Næss

List of John Benjamins publications for which Åshild Næss plays a role.

Title

Prototypical Transitivity

Åshild Næss

[Typological Studies in Language, 72] 2007. x, 240 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Articles

Næss, Åshild 2021 Äiwoo wâtu and the typology of comparativesStudies 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
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
Næss, Åshild 2011 Case on the margins: Pragmatics and argument marking in Vaeakau-Taumako and beyondCase, 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
Næss, Åshild 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
Næss, Åshild 2006 Case semantics and the agent-patient oppositionCase, Valency and Transitivity, Kulikov, Leonid, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart (eds.), pp. 309–327 | Article