Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles

Editors

Seppo Kittilä

| University of Helsinki

Katja Västi

| University of Oulu & University of Helsinki

Jussi Ylikoski

| University of Helsinki & Sámi University College

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The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these chapters primarily deal with lesser studied phenomena, such as animacy effects on spatial cases and the differences between cases and adpositions in the coding of spatial relations. In addition, theoretical and diachronic issues related to case and semantic roles are also discussed; for example, what is case, how do cases develop and what are the functional differences between cases and adpositions? The chapters deal with a variety of different languages including Uralic languages, Indo-European languages, Basque, Korean and Vaeakau-Taumako. The book is appealing to anyone interested in case, animacy and/or semantic roles.

[Typological Studies in Language, 99] 2011. vi, 354 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.99

Table of Contents

Introduction to case, animacy and semantic roles Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski	1–26
Remarks on the coding of Goal, Recipient and Vicinal Goal in European Uralic Seppo Kittilä and Jussi Ylikoski	29–64
A case in search of an independent life: The semantics of the initial allative in a Finnish verbless construction Katja Västi	65–110
The division of labour between synonymous locative cases and adpositions: The Estonian adessive and the adposition peal ‘on’ Jane Klavan, Kaisa Kesküla and Laura Ojava	111–134
Is there a future for the Finnish comitative?: Arguments against the putative synonymy of the comitative case -ine and the postposition kanssa Maija Sirola-Belliard	135–154
Animacy and spatial cases: Typological tendencies, and the case of Basque Denis Creissels and Céline Mounole	157–182
There’s more than “more animate”: The Organization/Document Construction in Korean Jae Jung Song	183–206
The coding of spatial relations with human landmarks: From Latin to Romance Silvia Luraghi	207–234
A survey of the origins of directional case suffixes in European Uralic Jussi Ylikoski	235–280
Dutch spatial case Sander Lestrade	281–304
Case on the margins: Pragmatics and argument marking in Vaeakau-Taumako and beyond Åshild Næss	305–328
Why should beneficiaries be subjects (or objects)?: Affaction and grammatical relations Fernando Zúñiga	329–348

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Cited by other publications

Hamari, Arja

2014. In Morphology and Meaning [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 327], ► pp. 163 ff.

Kittilä, Seppo & Fernando Zúñiga

2016. In Advances in Research on Semantic Roles [Benjamins Current Topics, 88], ► pp. 1 ff.

Kruijer, Mike & Ezra la Roi

2018. Paradigmatic Possibilities as Perspective for Absolute Constructions. Mnemosyne 71:5 ► pp. 799 ff.

Luraghi, Silvia

2014. In Perspectives on Semantic Roles [Typological Studies in Language, 106], ► pp. 99 ff.

Luraghi, Silvia

2017. In Space in Diachrony [Studies in Language Companion Series, 188], ► pp. 119 ff.

Luraghi, Silvia & Heiko Narrog

2014. In Perspectives on Semantic Roles [Typological Studies in Language, 106], ► pp. 1 ff.

Peltola, Rea

2018. Being perceptible: Animacy, existentiality and intersubjectivity in constructions with the Finnish verbkuulua‘to be perceptible (through hearing)’. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 41:1 ► pp. 39 ff.

Seržant, Ilja A.

2014. In Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1], ► pp. 257 ff.

Västi, Katja & Seppo Kittilä

2016. In Advances in Research on Semantic Roles [Benjamins Current Topics, 88], ► pp. 79 ff.

Zaika, Natalia M.

2016. In Argument Realization in Baltic [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 3], ► pp. 333 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

Semantics

Typology

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2011025122