Prototypical Transitivity

Åshild Næss | University of Oslo

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This book presents a functional analysis of a notion which has gained considerable importance in cognitive and functional linguistics over the last couple of decades, namely 'prototypical transitivity'. It discusses what prototypical transitivity is, why it should exist, and how it should be defined, as well as how this definition can be employed in the analysis of a number of phenomena of language, such as case-marking, experiencer constructions, and so-called ambitransitives. Also discussed is how a prototype analysis relates to other approaches to transitivity, such as that based on markedness. The basic claim is that transitivity is iconic: a construction with two distinct, independent arguments is prototypically used to refer to an event with two distinct, independent participants. From this principle, a unified account of the properties typically associated with transitivity can be derived, and an explanation for why these properties tend to correlate across languages can be given.

[Typological Studies in Language, 72] 2007. x, 240 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.72

Table of Contents

Preface | p. ix

Chapter 1: Introduction | pp. 1–9

1.1. Why transitivity?
1.2. Theoretical preliminaries
1.3. Structure of the book

Chapter 2: Why a transitive prototype? | pp. 11–26

2.1. Introduction
2.2. Prototype models
2.3. Markedness vs. prototypicality
2.4. Conclusion

Chapter 3: Defining the transitive prototype: The Maximally Distinguished Arguments Hypothesis | pp. 27–49

3.1. Introduction
3.2. The Maximally Distinguished Arguments Hypothesis
3.3. Maximal distinction and functional explanations

Chapter 4: The Affected Agent | pp. 51–84

4.1. Introduction
4.2. "Ingestive verbs" and affected agents
4.3. Crosslinguistic data
4. 4. 'Eat' and markers of agent affectedness
4.5. Alternative analyses
4.6. Other affected-agent constructions
4.7 Concluding remarks

Chapter 5: Transitivity in verbs and clauses | pp. 85–122

5.1. Introduction
5.2. Previous feature-decompositional accounts
5.3. Semantic specifications of participant types
5.4. Semantic features in verb subcategorisation
5.5. Properties of argument NPs
5.6. Clause-level properties
5.7. Formal correlates
5.8. Conclusion

Chapter 6: Ambitransitivity and indefinite object deletion | pp. 123–151

6.1. Introduction
6.2. Indefinite object deletion
6.3. Transitivity and indefinite object deletion
6.4. IOD and S/O ambitransitives

Chapter 7: Maximal semantic distinction in core case-marking | pp. 153–184

7.1. Introduction
7.2. The discriminatory analysis
7.3. The indexing analysis
7.4. Case and the maximal semantic distinction of arguments
7.5. Case and semantic transitivity: Unifying discrimination and indexing
7.6. Semantic extensions
7.7. Discriminatory extensions
7.8. Split ergativity
7.9. A note on case-marking labels

Chapter 8: Experiencers and the dative | pp. 185–208

8.1. Introduction
8.2. The semantic diversity of experience events
8.3. Experience clauses and the transitive prototype
8.4. The dative case

Chapter 9: Beyond prototypical transitivity | pp. 209–218

9.1. From Agent and Patient to subject and object
9.2. Structural vs. semantic case
9.3. Other prototypes
9.4. Concluding remarks

Appendix: Nonstandard abbreviations in glosses | p. 219

Author index | pp. 233–235

Language index | pp. 237–238

Subject index | pp. 239–240

“A major and highly original contribution to the understanding of an area of morphosyntax which has, through the last decades, come to be known as notoriously complex.”

Leon Stassen, University of Utrecht

“The book contains a large amount of illuminating data with arguments convincing enough to persuade its readers to take an interest in the question as the author originally hoped. It also successfully demonstrates that how linguistic structure is motivated by aspects of human cognition. It is a welcome and worthy addition to the literature on transitivity, one of the most fundamental aspects of linguistic structure.”

Jaehoon Yeon, SOAS, University of London, in Studies in Language Vol. 33:1, 2009

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2022. Notes. In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa, ► pp. 207 ff.

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2022. Conclusion. In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa, ► pp. 167 ff.

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2022. Introduction. In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa, ► pp. 1 ff.

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2022. Reconstructed Vocabulary. In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa, ► pp. 171 ff.

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2022. Bibliography. In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa, ► pp. 253 ff.

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2022. Methodologies and Sources for a Conceptual History of Economic Difference over theLongue Durée. In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa, ► pp. 22 ff.

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