Case, Valency and Transitivity

Editors

Leonid Kulikov | Leiden University

Andrej L. Malchukov | Radboud University Nijmegen

Peter de Swart | Radboud University Nijmegen

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The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several semantic issues such as the meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal classes, and the semantic correlates of transitivity. The volume unifies papers written within different theoretical frameworks and representing variegated approaches (Optimality Theory, Government and Binding, various versions of the Functional approach, Cross-linguistic and Typological analyses), containing both numerous new findings in individual languages and valuable observations and generalizations related to case, valency and transitivity.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 77] 2006. xx, 503 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.77

Table of Contents

Introduction | pp. vii–xix

Part I. Morphological case

Syntactic vs. morphological case: Implications for morphosyntax

Andrew Spencer | pp. 3–21

Case systems in a diachronic perspective: A typological sketch

Leonid Kulikov | pp. 23–47

Emergence of morphological cases in South Mande: From the amorphous type to inflectional?

Valentin Vydrin | pp. 49–64

Issues of morphological ergativity in the Tsimshian languages: Agreement, determiners and the reconstruction of case

Tyler Peterson | pp. 65–90

Direction marking and case in Menominee

Jochen Trommer | pp. 91–111

Bare and prepositional differential case marking: The exotic case of German (and Icelandic) among all of Germanic

Werner Abraham | pp. 115–145

Control infinitives and case in Germanic: ‘Performance error’ or marginally acceptable constructions?

Jóhanna Barðdal and Thórhallur Eythórsson | pp. 147–177

Experiencer coding in Nakh-Daghestanian

Dmitry Ganenkov | pp. 179–202

‘Argument sharing’ in Oriya serial verb constructions

Kalyanamalini Sahoo | pp. 203–221

B. Case interpretation

Two approaches to specificity

Lars Johanson | pp. 225–247

Case markedness

Peter de Swart | pp. 249–267

Incremental distinguishability of subject and object

Helen de Hoop and Monique Lamers | pp. 269–287

C. Case and the typology of transitivity

The woman showed the baby to her sister: On resolving humanness-driven ambiguity in ditransitives

Seppo Kittilä | pp. 291–308

Case semantics and the agent-patient opposition

Åshild Næss | pp. 309–327

Transitivity parameters and transitivity alternations: Constraining co-variation

Andrej L. Malchukov | pp. 329–357

Transitivity in Songhay

Julia Galiamina | pp. 359–371

Part III. Transitivity and valency change

Syntactic valence, information structure, and passive constructions in Kaqchikel

George Aaron Broadwell | pp. 375–392

A very active passive: Functional similarities between passive and causative in Balkar

Ekaterina Lyutikova and Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya | pp. 393–416

Case marking, possession and syntactic hierarchies in Khakas causative constructions in comparison with other Turkic languages

Alexander Letuchiy | pp. 417–439

Transitivity increase markers interacting with verbs semantics: Evidence from Finno-Ugric languages

Elena Kalinina, Dmitriy Kolomatskiy and Alexandra Sudobina | pp. 441–463

Extraversive transitivization in Yucatec Maya and the nature of the applicative

Christian Lehmann and Elisabeth Verhoeven | pp. 465–493

Language Index | pp. 495–497

Subject Index | pp. 498–503

“The volume ‘Case, Valency and Transitivity’ is a fine collection of papers by authors coming from different countries and belonging to different theoretical frameworks but sharing some fundamental assumptions on what case and transitivity are and how they work, even though these assumptions are often couched in quite different terminology and illustrated by very different data. The book is abundant in very interesting material from a whole array of languages, some of them quite ‘exotic’, and contains valuable contributions to language description, typology, and linguistic theory. The major outcome of this volume, besides the purely empirical one, consists, in my opinion, in clearly showing that the interaction and collaboration of linguists working on different aspects of a single notional domain and approaching it from divergent perspectives may be very fruitful.”

Peter M. Arkadiev, Russian Academy of Sciences, in Studies in Language Vol. 33:3 (2009)

“Ce volume est la meilleure preuve que la typologie est en plein essor depuis quelques annees. En apportant regulierement de nouveaux faits sur des langues peu ou mal etudiees, en proposant des theories explicatives qui suscitent la discussion, ce genre d'ouvrages contribue al'enrichissement de nos connaissances sur les mecanismes qui sont aI'reuvre dans l'expression des fonctions centrales.”

Jack Feuillet, in Bulletin de Societé de Linguistique, 102(2), 2007

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