
Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 28. September 2011
Book
Hardback
354 pages
978-90-272-0680-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
810 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0680-0 (9789027206800)
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Seppo Kittilä | Katja Västi | Jussi Ylikoski
Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles
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09/2011
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Persons
Editor
University of Helsinki
University of Oulu & University of Helsinki
University of Helsinki & Sami University College
Content
1. Introduction to case, animacy and semantic roles (by Kittila, Seppo); 2. Remarks on the coding of Goal, Recipient and Vicinal Goal in European Uralic (by Kittila, Seppo); 3. A case in search of an independent life: The semantics of the initial allative in a Finnish verbless construction (by Vasti, Katja); 4. The division of labour between synonymous locative cases and adpositions: The Estonian adessive and the adposition peal 'on' (by Klavan, Jane); 5. Is there a future for the Finnish comitative?: Arguments against the putative synonymy of the comitative case -ine and the postposition kanssa (by Sirola-Belliard, Maija); 6. Animacy and spatial cases: Typological tendencies, and the case of Basque (by Creissels, Denis); 7. There's more than "more animate": The Organization/Document Construction in Korean (by Song, Jae Jung); 8. The coding of spatial relations with human landmarks: From Latin to Romance (by Luraghi, Silvia); 9. A survey of the origins of directional case suffixes in European Uralic (by Ylikoski, Jussi); 10. Dutch spatial case (by Lestrade, Sander); 11. Case on the margins: Pragmatics and argument marking in Vaeakau-Taumako and beyond (by Naess, Ashild); 12. Why should beneficiaries be subjects (or objects)?: Affaction and grammatical relations (by Zuniga, Fernando)