
Perspectives on Semantic Roles
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- Perspectives on Semantic Roles
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of content
- Perspectives on semantic roles
- 1. Semantic roles
- 2. Encoding semantic roles
- 2.1 Case
- 2.2 Semantic roles and structural case vs. lexical (inherent) case
- 2.3 Adpositions
- 2.4 Semantic roles and lexical meaning
- 3. Semantic maps
- 4. Contents of this volume
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Inducing semantic roles
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Using cross-linguistic variation to approach semantics
- 3. The data: Case-like marking in parallel texts
- 4. Analysis of roles
- 5. Comparison of languages
- 6. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Appendices
- Appendix A: Sampled contexts
- Appendix C: Wordforms
- Appendix D: Contextual role distances
- Appendix E: Clustering of contextual roles
- Appendix F: Alternative flat clustering
- Appendix G: Language specific structures
- The grammaticalization chain of case functions
- 1. Introduction: Directionality of semantic/functional change in the domain of case
- 2. Semantic and constructional change
- 3. Directionalities that fit the chain
- 3.1 From domain 1 (spatial functions) to domain 2 (human participants)
- 3.2 From domain 1 (spatial functions) to domain 3 (human activity)
- 3.3 From domain 1 (spatial functions) to domains 4 to 6 (inanimate concepts)
- 3.4 From domain 2 (human participants) to domain 3 (participants in human activity)
- 3.5 From domain 2 (human participants) to domain 4,5,6 (inanimate concepts)
- 3.6 From domain 3 (participants in human activity) to domains 4, 5, 6 (inanimate concepts)
- 3.7 Summary
- 4. Directionalities contra the claim
- 4.1 From domain 3 (participants in human activity) to domain 2 (human participants)
- 4.1.1 Changes likely due to constructional change
- 4.1.2 Changes likely due to semantic extension
- 4.2 From domains 4,5,6 (inanimate concepts) to domain 2 (human participants)
- 4.3 From domains 4,5,6 (inanimate concepts) to domain 3 (participants in human activity)
- 5. Directionalities within domain 2
- 6. Result
- 7. Discussion
- 8. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Plotting diachronic semantic maps
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Encoding semantic roles: Source and target domains
- 2.1 Spatial relations
- 2.1.1 Basic spatial relations and the position of path
- 2.1.2 A merger without polysemy: Location and source
- 2.1.3 Space and time
- 2.2 Human relations
- 2.2.1 Two maximally distinct metaphors
- 2.2.2 Possession: Direction or location?
- 2.2.3 Comitative and the domain of spatial relations
- 2.2.4 A spatial metaphor or an extension from other human roles?
- 2.2.5 Competing metaphors: The case of possessor
- 2.2.6 Recipient and beneficiary
- 2.2.7 Beneficiaries that are not recipients
- 2.2.8 Competing metaphors: Beneficiary
- 2.2.9 A Balto-Finnic perspective on the Indo-European dative
- 2.2.10 Path as a source for human relations: Intermediary
- 2.2.11 Interim summary
- 2.3 Non-human relations
- 2.3.1 Source domains for instrument
- 2.3.2 Instrument as a source domain
- 2.3.3 Cause and purpose
- 3. Expected and unexpected polysemies among human relations
- 3.1 Agent and possessor
- 3.2 Possessor and recipient/beneficiary
- 3.3 Agent and recipient/beneficiary
- 3.4 Agent and comitative
- 3.5 Comitative and possessor
- 3.6 Comitative recipient/beneficiary
- 3.7 Experiencer
- 3.8 Interim summary 2
- 4. Discussion
- Appendix - List of metaphors discussed in the text
- References
- List of abbreviations
- The (non-)prototypicality of Direction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Defining Direction
- 2.1 Preliminaries
- 2.2 Features relevant to the discussion in this paper
- 3. Coding of Direction in Finnish
- 3.1 Preliminaries
- 3.2 Effects of animacy
- 3.2.1 Preliminaries
- 3.2.2 Inanimate Theme + Inanimate Direction
- 3.2.3 Inanimate Theme + Animate Direction
- 3.2.4 Animate Theme + Inanimate Direction
- 3.2.5 Animate Theme + Animate Direction
- 3.3 Dimensionality
- 3.3.1 Two-dimensional entities
- 3.3.2 Three-dimensional entities
- 3.4 Physical size
- 3.5 Coincidence
- 3.6 The nature of linguistic reference
- 4. Summary
- 5. Theoretical implications
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- References
- The morphosyntax of the experiencer in Early Vedic
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Semantic roles and case-marking in Early Vedic
- 3. Experiential constructions in Vedic
- 3.1 The EXPNOM Construction
- 3.2 The EXPACC Construction
- 3.3 The EXPDAT construction
- 4. Morphosyntactic variation in the Experiential domain
- 5. Concluding remarks
- References
- Against the addressee of speech - Recipient metaphor
- 1. Introduction
- 2. East Caucasian languages: Background information
- 3. Addressee marking in East Caucasian
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- 6. Research outlook
- Abbreviations
- References
- Semantic roles and word formation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Semantic roles in word formation
- 2.1 Identifying semantic roles in word formation
- 2.2 Criteria for differentiating semantic roles
- 3. Case study: Instrument, Location and related roles in Ancient Greek
- 3.1 Defining Instrument and Location
- 3.2 The semantic roles Instrument and Location in word formation
- 3.3 Instrument and Location in word formation in Ancient Greek
- 3.4 Comparing Instrument and Location in grammatical morphemes and word formation patterns
- 4. Concluding remarks
- References
- From semantic roles to evaluative markers. The dative and affected possessors
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A constructional delimitation of Recipients, Beneficiaries and Maleficiaries
- 2.1 Dative Beneficiaries and Maleficiaries vs dative of affectedness in German, French and Italian
- 2.2 Datives of affectedness as the last stage of grammaticalization paths
- 3. A micro-constructional categorization of datives of affectedness
- 3.1 Affectedness and possession
- 3.2 The dative as an evaluative marker
- 4. The dative with events impacting on the PS
- 5. The dative with change-of-state verbs
- 5.1 Hens's Dative-of-Inaction Construction and cognate approaches
- 5.2 Internally vs externally caused COSs revised
- 5.3 The dative with COSs involving Accelerators
- 5.4 The dative with COSs brought about by human Effectors
- 5.5 Semantic constraints with datives denoting COSs
- 5.6 "Heading for a fall": Unusual grammaticalization paths
- 6. The Agentive Dative Construction (ADC)
- 6. 1 Semantics and spectrum of the ADC
- 6.2 The German and French ADC and cognate constructions: A potential grammaticalization path
- 7. Final remarks and proposals for further research
- Appendix-Abbreviations used in this paper
- References
- Author index
- Language index
- Subject index
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