Perspectives on Semantic Roles
Editors
Semantic roles have continued to intrigue linguists for more than four decades now, starting with determining their kind and number, with their morphological expression, and with their interaction with argument structure and syntax. The focus in this volume is on typological and historical issues. The papers focus on the cross-linguistic identification of semantic-role equivalents, on the regularity of, and exceptions concerning change and grammaticalization in semantic roles, the variation of encoding the roles of direction and experiencer in specific languages, presenting evidence for identifying a new semantic role of speech addressee in Caucasian languages, on semantic roles in word formation, and finally a cross-linguistic comparison of the functions and the grammaticalization of the ethical dative in some Indo-European languages. The book will be of interest to anyone involved with case and semantic roles, with the syntax-semantics interface, and with semantic change and grammaticalization.
[Typological Studies in Language, 106] 2014. vi, 336 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 11 August 2014
Published online on 11 August 2014
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Perspectives on semantic roles: An introductionSilvia Luraghi and Heiko Narrog | pp. 1–22
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Inducing semantic rolesMichael Cysouw | pp. 23–68
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The grammaticalization chain of case functions: Extension and reanalysis of case marking vs. universals of grammaticalizationHeiko Narrog | pp. 69–98
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Plotting diachronic semantic maps: The role of metaphorsSilvia Luraghi | pp. 99–150
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The (non-)prototypicality of Direction: The (allative and illative) case(s) of FinnishSeppo Kittilä | pp. 151–180
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The Morphosyntax of the Experiencer in Early VedicEystein Dahl | pp. 181–204
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Against the addressee of speech – Recipient metaphor: Evidence from East CaucasianMichael A. Daniel | pp. 205–240
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Semantic roles and word formation: Instrument and Location in Ancient GreekEugenio R. Luján and César Ruiz Abad | pp. 241–270
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From semantic roles to evaluative markers. The dative and affected possessors: A constructional comparison between German, Italian and FrenchDomenico Niclot | pp. 271–326
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Author index | pp. 327–330
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Language index | pp. 331–332
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Subject index | pp. 333–336
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General