Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations

A crosslinguistic typology

Editors

Pirkko Suihkonen | University of Helsinki

Bernard Comrie | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & University of California, Santa Barbara

Valery Solovyev | Kazan Federal University

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This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of grammatical relations and argument structure in the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA). Topics covered with respect to individual languages are: split-intransitivity (Basque), causativization (Agul), transitives and causatives (Korean and Japanese), aspectual domain and quantification (Finnish and Udmurt), head-marking principles (Athabaskan languages), and pragmatics (Eastern Khanty and Xibe). Typology of argument-structure properties of ‘give’ (LENCA), typology of agreement systems, asymmetry in argument structure, typology of the Amdo Sprachbund, spatial realtors (Northeastern Turkic), core argument patterns (languages of Northern California), and typology of grammatical relations (LENCA) are the topics of articles based on cross-linguistic data. The broad empirical sweep and the fine-tuned theoretical analysis highlight the central role of argument structure and grammatical relations with respect to a plethora of linguistic phenomena.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 126] 2012. xv, 406 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 29 June 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.126

Table of Contents

The editors | pp. vii–viii

The authors | pp. ix–x

Preface | pp. xi–xii

Introduction

Bernard Comrie | pp. xiii–xvi

A deceptive case of split-intransitivity in Basque

Asier Alcázar | pp. 1–16

Some argument-structure properties of ‘give’ in the languages of Europe and Northern and Central Asia

Bernard Comrie | pp. 17–36

Grammatical relations in a typology of agreement systems

Greville G. Corbett | pp. 37–54

Causatives in Agul

Michael A. Daniel, Timur A. Maisak and Solmaz R. Merdanova | pp. 55–114

Continuity of information structuring strategies in Eastern Khanty: Definiteness/topicality

Andrey Filchenko | pp. 115–132

Patterns of asymmetry in argument structure across languages: Some principles and puzzles

John A. Hawkins | pp. 133–150

Topic marking and the construction of narrative in Xibe

Taeho Jang and Thomas E. Payne | pp. 151–176

On the hierarchy of structural convergence in the Amdo Sprachbund

Juha A. Janhunen | pp. 177–190

Pyramids of spatial relators in Northeastern Turkic and its neighbors

Lars Johanson | pp. 191–210

What’s in the head of head-marking languages?

Andrej A. Kibrik | pp. 211–240

Transitives, causatives and passives in Korean and Japanese

Hee-Soo Kim | pp. 241–256

Core argument patterns and deep genetic relations: Hierarchical systems in Northern California

Marianne Mithun | pp. 257–294

Three takes on grammatical relations: A view from the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia

Anna Siewierska and Dik Bakker | pp. 295–324

On aspect, aspectual domain and quantification in Finnish and Udmurt

Pirkko Suihkonen | pp. 325–354

Indexes | pp. 355–406

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