Advances in Research on Semantic Roles
Edited by Seppo Kittilä and Fernando Zúñiga
[Benjamins Current Topics, 88] 2016. v, 219 pp.
Seppo Kittilä
List of John Benjamins publications for which Seppo Kittilä plays a role.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Advances in research on semantic roles
Edited by Seppo Kittilä and Fernando Zúñiga
Special issue of Studies in Language 38:3 (2014) v, 211 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles
Edited by Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski
[Typological Studies in Language, 99] 2011. vi, 354 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies
Edited by Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä
[Typological Studies in Language, 92] 2010. x, 440 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
2022 A typology of Goal-Source marking in transfer events Studies in Language 46:2, pp. 352–375 | Article
This paper discusses the coding of Goals and Sources from a cross-linguistic perspective and proposes a formal-functional typology based on how animacy and direction affect their coding. The proposed typology comprises three types; Goal vs. Source-languages, animacy and direction-languages, and… read more
2019 Evidentiality Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 93–114 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 11. What can different types of linguistic data teach us on evidentiality? Evidence for Evidentiality, Foolen, Ad, Helen de Hoop and Gijs Mulder (eds.), pp. 281–304 | Chapter
In this chapter, different types of data used in evidentiality studies are discussed. We first discuss reference grammars, which are necessary for any cross-linguistic study of evidentials. This is followed by a discussion of (different types of) usage-based data, as well as natural language data… read more
2016 Recent developments and open questions in the field of semantic roles Advances in Research on Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
This introductory chapter briefly introduces a few milestones in the voluminous previous literature on semantic roles, and charts the territory in which the chapters of this volume aim to make a contribution. This territory is characterized by fairly disparate conceptualizations of semantic roles… read more
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
2015 The world is raining: Meteorological predicates and their subjects in a typological perspective Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Tuomas Huumo (eds.), pp. 205–228 | Article
The peculiar semantic properties of meteorological predicates have linguistic
consequences. Some of these consequences concern their subjects, which do not
behave like prototypical subjects do. Meteorological predicates often lack a subject,
and in the languages where they do have subjects they are… read more
2015 Chapter 16. Valence change: General and Zapotec perspectives Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 345–380 | Article
Valence comprises the number of arguments a verb (maximally) takes. Valence is not an invariable notion, but the valence of verbs may be either increased (e.g. causative) or decreased (passive) by modifying the verbal morphology. In this chapter, an overview of the central valence changing… read more
2014 The (non-)prototypicality of Direction: The (allative and illative) case(s) of Finnish Perspectives on Semantic Roles, Luraghi, Silvia and Heiko Narrog (eds.), pp. 151–180 | Article
The present paper examines the coding of Direction in Finnish. It will deal with both typical and less typical instances of Direction in light of features, such as animacy, size of the landmark and the nature of the reference to the landmark. The paper pursues two goals. First, it will show that… read more
2014 Recent developments and open questions in the field of semantic roles Advances in research on semantic roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 437–462 | Article
This introductory chapter briefly introduces a few milestones in the voluminous previous literature on semantic roles, and charts the territory in which the papers of this volume aim to make a contribution. This territory is characterized by fairly disparate conceptualizations of semantic roles… 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 Remarks on the coding of Goal, Recipient and Vicinal Goal in European Uralic Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski (eds.), pp. 29–64 | Article
This paper discusses the coding of three roles, Goal, Recipient and Vicinal Goal (‘to the vicinity of’) in European Uralic languages. The paper shows that Uralic languages typically use cases for Recipients and Goals, while Vicinal Goals bear adpositional coding except for a few languages with… 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
2010 The linguistics of weather: Cross-linguistic patterns of meteorological expressions Studies in Language 34:3, pp. 565–601 | Article
This paper is a cross-linguistic investigation of meteorological expressions (such as it is snowing or the wind blows). The paper proposes a three-fold typology of meteorological constructions according to the element primarily responsible for the coding of weather. In the predicate type, a… read more
2010 Beneficiary coding in Finnish Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 245–270 | Article
This paper examines the beneficiary coding in (Standard) Finnish. Finnish has an elaborate system of coding benefaction. Finnish uses two cases (allative and ablative) for this, in addition to which benefaction can be coded by an array of postpositions. As will be shown in the paper, the markers… read more
2010 Introduction: Benefaction and malefaction from a cross-linguistic perspective Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Article
2007 On the encoding of transitivity-related features on the indirect object Ditransitivity, Siewierska, Anna and Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), pp. 149–164 | Article
The present article examines the effects of transitivity on the encoding of indirect object. The examined features comprise affectedness, aspect and animacy. In addition, differences between what will be labelled as neutral vs. purposeful transfer will be discussed. The article shows that effects… read more
2006 The woman showed the baby to her sister: On resolving humanness-driven ambiguity in ditransitives Case, Valency and Transitivity, Kulikov, Leonid, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart (eds.), pp. 291–308 | Article
2006 Object-, animacy- and role-based strategies: A typology of object marking Studies in Language 30:1, pp. 1–32 | Article
The present paper discusses the marking of objects in ditransitive clauses. On the basis of the factors conditioning the marking, three strategies are distinguished. These are labeled as object-, animacy- and role-based strategies. In the first case, the mere objecthood (i.e. the contrast to the… read more
2006 On distinguishing between ‘recipient’ and ‘beneficiary’ in Finnish Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, space and person in Finnish, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Lyle Campbell (eds.), pp. 129–152 | Article
Seppo Kittilä’s paper discusses the (formal and semantic) distinction between recipient and beneficiary in Finnish. The paper shows that the allative case is strongly associated with the notion of reception. This means that whenever a participant can be regarded as a recipient, the allative case is… read more