Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic
1st Edition
Published on 16. May 2014
VII, 370 pages
978-90-272-7039-9 (ISBN)
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This is the first of three volumes dealing with clausal architecture, grammatical relations, case-marking and the syntax-semantics interface in Baltic. It focuses on the grammatical relations of subject and object and the viability of these notions in languages like Lithuanian and Latvian, which have a rich case morphology and show many deviations from the canonical nominative-accusative pattern of case-marking. The issues examined include differential object marking, subjecthood in specificational copular constructions, 'swarm'-type alternations and what they tell us about grammatical relations, special types of subject and object marking in non-finite clauses, and non-canonical grammatical relations induced by modal predicates. One study provides a comparative outlook towards Icelandic, another language noted for its complex marking of grammatical relations. The articles in the volume represent various theoretical frameworks.
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- Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Argument marking and grammatical relations in Baltic: An overview
- 1. The project
- 2. Alignment and case marking in Baltic
- 3. Baltic in a typological context: Alternatives to the transitive pattern
- 4. Differential and non-canonical marking
- 5. Canonical marking
- 6. Concluding remarks and chapter summaries
- Abbreviations
- Sources
- References
- Case and word order in Lithuanian infinitival clauses revisited
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Basics of the Minimalist case theory
- 3. Franks & Lavine (2006)
- 4. Franks & Lavine (2006) revised
- 5. Typological parallels
- 6. Back to Lithuanian: A new analysis
- 7. Conclusions and implications
- Abbreviations
- References
- Non-canonical grammatical relations in a modal construction: The Latvian debitive
- 1. Introductory remarks
- 2. The debitive: A modal form with atypical syntactic properties
- 3. Monoclausal and biclausal debitives
- 4. The argument structure of modals
- 5. Grammatical relations and case marking with the debitive: Earlier discussion
- 6. Grammatical relations with the debitive
- 7. Some theoretical considerations
- 8. Shifts in the case marking of the B argument
- 9. The debitive and voice
- 10. The debitive and splits
- Abbreviations
- References
- Alternations in argument realization and problematic cases of subjecthood in Lithuanian
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Overview of Lithuanian swarm alternations
- 3. Semantic properties of the verbs and their arguments in Lithuanian swarm alternation
- 4. Discourse-pragmatic functions of the Lithuanian swarm alternation
- 5. Non-prototypical subjects in the Lithuanian swarm alternation
- 6. Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Sources
- References
- References
- Subjecthood in specificational copular constructions in Lithuanian
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The treatment of copular constructions in Cognitive Grammar
- 3. Defining specificational copular constructions
- 4. Short review of the subject definition in Cognitive Grammar
- 5. Subjecthood in specificational copular constructions
- 6. Concluding remarks
- Abbreviations
- References
- References
- Differential object marking in Latgalian
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Morphology
- 3. Genitive marking with transitive verbs: Clause-level properties
- 4. Different marking for different kinds of NPs
- 5. Intransitive verbs with genitive arguments
- 6. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Sources
- References
- The independent partitive genitive in Lithuanian
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Implicit quantifier
- 3. Implicit quantifier and aspect
- 4. Intensional contexts and negation
- 5. Conclusions
- Abbreviations
- References
- On the non-canonical marking of the highest-ranking argument in Lithuanian and Icelandic: Steps towa
- 1. Sketch of the project
- 2. Theoretical background
- 3. A first analysis of verb classes and case marking patterns in Lithuanian and Icelandic
- 4. Conclusions and outlook
- Abbreviations
- List of nonstandard abbreviations
- Sources
- References
- Language index
- Name index
- Subject index
