Argument Realization in Baltic
Published on 21. January 2016
Book
Hardback
560 pages
978-90-272-5911-0 (ISBN)
Description
The third volume in the VARGReB series explores different aspects of varying argument realization in Baltic. It presents original studies on differential marking of both core and non-core verbal arguments, on argument structures of nouns and the encoding of nominal arguments, as well as on constructions reflecting the expansion of argument structure through the addition of causative, resultative or applicative predications. The discussion of phenomena of argument realization and marking often touches on fundamental problems of syntax and the syntax-semantics interface, such as the putative locality of case assignment, event-structural factors determining case marking, the inheritance of argument structure across phrase types, or the status of arguments and adjuncts. The contributions to this volume use different approaches and frameworks to analyze a wealth of authentic data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.
Reviews / Votes
This high-quality volume builds directly on the success of the two previous volumes and provides us with more evidence why valency, argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic merit a publication series of their own. The book offers lots of interesting actual data collected from corpora and gives the reader many fresh ideas on argument realization. The book should thus definitely be found on the bookshelf of any linguist interested in learning more about argument realization in general and in languages that have not gained that much attention in typological research thus far. -- Seppo Kittilae, University of HelsinkiMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
+ index
Weight
1005 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5911-0 (9789027259110)
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01/2016
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Holvoet, Axel); 3. Case marking and case alternations; 4. Long-distance Genitive of Negation in Lithuanian (by Arkadiev, Peter M.); 5. Argument marking in Baltic and Slavonic pain-verb constructions (by Holvoet, Axel); 6. Variable argument realization in Lithuanian impersonals (by Lavine, James E.); 7. The nominative case in Baltic in a typological perspective (by Serzant, Ilja A.); 8. Differential Argument Marking with the Latvian debitive: A multifactorial analysis (by Serzant, Ilja A.); 9. Contexts for the choice of genitive vs. instrumental in contemporary Lithuanian (by Wiemer, Bjorn); 10. The directive/locative alternation in Lithuanian and elsewhere (by Zaika, Natalia M.); 11. Extending argument structure; 12. Verbal prefixation and argument structure in Lithuanian (by Kozhanov, Kirill); 13. Resultative secondary predicates in the Baltic languages (by Riaubiene, Benita); 14. On periphrastic causative constructions in Lithuanian and Latvian (by Pakerys, Jurgis); 15. Nominalizations and their arugument structure; 16. Argument realization in Latvian action nominal constructions: A corpus and text based investigation (by Nau, Nicole); 17. Lithuanian nominalizations and the case marking of their arguments (by Zaika, Natalia M.); 18. Language index; 19. Name index; 20. Subject index