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The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several semantic issues such as the meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal classes, and the semantic correlates of transitivity. The volume unifies papers written within different theoretical frameworks and representing variegated approaches (Optimality Theory, Government and Binding, various versions of the Functional approach, Cross-linguistic and Typological analyses), containing both numerous new findings in individual languages and valuable observations and generalizations related to case, valency and transitivity.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Part I. Morphological case; 3. Syntactic vs. morphological case: Implications for morphosyntax (by Spencer, Andrew); 4. Case systems in a diachronic perspective: A typological sketch (by Kulikov, Leonid); 5. Emergence of morphological cases in South Mande: From the amorphous type to inflectional? (by Vydrin, Valentin); 6. Issues of morphological ergativity in the Tsimshian languages: Agreement, determiners and the reconstruction of case (by Peterson, Tyler); 7. Direction marking and case in Menominee (by Trommer, Jochen); 8. Part II. Case-marking and transitivity; 9. A. Syntax of case; 10. Bare and prepositional differential case marking: The exotic case of German (and Icelandic) among all of Germanic (by Abraham, Werner); 11. Control infinitives and case in Germanic: 'Performance error' or marginally acceptable constructions? (by Barddal, Johanna); 12. Experiencer coding in Nakh-Daghestanian (by Ganenkov, Dmitry); 13. 'Argument sharing' in Oriya serial verb constructions (by Sahoo, Kalyanamalini); 14. B. Case interpretation; 15. Two approaches to specificity (by Johanson, Lars); 16. Case markedness (by Swart, Peter de); 17. Incremental distinguishability of subject and object (by Hoop, Helen de); 18. C. Case and the typology of transitivity; 19. The woman showed the baby to her sister: On resolving humanness-driven ambiguity in ditransitives (by Kittila, Seppo); 20. Case semantics and the agent-patient opposition (by Naess, Ashild); 21. Transitivity parameters and transitivity alternations: Constraining co-variation (by Malchukov, Andrej); 22. Transitivity in Songhay (by Galiamina, Julia); 23. Part III. Transitivity and valency change; 24. Syntactic valence, information structure, and passive constructions in Kaqchikel (by Broadwell, George Aaron); 25. A very active passive: Functional similarities between passive and causative in Balkar (by Lyutikova, Ekaterina); 26. Case marking, possession and syntactic hierarchies in Khakas causative constructions in comparison with other Turkic languages (by Letuchiy, Alexander); 27. Transitivity increase markers interacting with verbs semantics: Evidence from Finno-Ugric languages (by Kalinina, Elena); 28. Extraversive transitivization in Yucatec Maya and the nature of the applicative (by Lehmann, Christian); 29. Language Index; 30. Subject Index

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The volume ‘Case, Valency and Transitivity’ is a fine collection of papers by authors coming from different countries and belonging to different theoretical frameworks but sharing some fundamental assumptions on what case and transitivity are and how they work, even though these assumptions are often couched in quite different terminology and illustrated by very different data. The book is abundant in very interesting material from a whole array of languages, some of them quite ‘exotic’, and contains valuable contributions to language description, typology, and linguistic theory. The major outcome of this volume, besides the purely empirical one, consists, in my opinion, in clearly showing that the interaction and collaboration of linguists working on different aspects of a single notional domain and approaching it from divergent perspectives may be very fruitful. Ce volume est la meilleure preuve que la typologie est en plein essor depuis quelques annees. En apportant regulierement de nouveaux faits sur des langues peu ou mal etudiees, en proposant des theories explicatives qui suscitent la discussion, ce genre d'ouvrages contribue al'enrichissement de nos connaissances sur les mecanismes qui sont aI'reuvre dans l'expression des fonctions centrales.


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  • ISBN-13: 9789027230874
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Height: 245 mm
  • No of Pages: 526
  • Series Title: 77 Studies in Language Companion Series
  • Width: 164 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9027230870
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 526
  • Weight: 1050 gr


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