Non-nominative Subjects
Title | Non-nominative Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Peri Bhaskararao |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027229717 |
Volume 2 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical perspectives study the intricate questions raised by these constructions. Some of the central issues include the subject properties of noun phrases with ergative, dative, accusative and genitive case, case assignment and checking, anaphorantecedent coreference, the nature of predicates with NNSs, whether they are volitional or non-volitional, possibilities of control coreference and agreement phenomena. These analyses have significant implications for theories of syntax and verbal semantics, first language acquisition of NNSs, convergence of case marking patterns in language contact situations, and the nature of syntactic change.
Non-nominative Subjects
Title | Non-nominative Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Peri Bhaskararao |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2004-09-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027295174 |
Volume 1 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis. A significant feature of these volumes is that authors with different theoretical perspectives study the intricate questions raised by these constructions. Some of the central issues include the subject properties of noun phrases with ergative, dative, accusative and genitive case, case assignment and checking, anaphor–antecedent coreference, the nature of predicates with NNSs, whether they are volitional or non-volitional, possibilities of control coreference and agreement phenomena. These analyses have significant implications for theories of syntax and verbal semantics, first language acquisition of NNSs, convergence of case marking patterns in language contact situations, and the nature of syntactic change.
Žalyn insandary
Title | Žalyn insandary PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
South Asian Languages
Title | South Asian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Kārumūri V. Subbārāo |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 391 |
Release | 2012-03-26 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0521861489 |
Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.
What's in a Nominative?
Title | What's in a Nominative? PDF eBook |
Author | Inna Livitz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN |
Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects
Title | Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027229502 |
In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their subjects or their objects in an unusual way. For example, most verbs may mark their subject with nominative case, but one small set of verbs may have dative subjects, and another small set may have locative subjects. Verbs with noncanonically marked subjects and objects typically refer to physiological states or events, inner feelings, perception and cognition. The Introduction sets out the theoretical parameters and defines the properties in terms of which subjects and objects can be analysed. Following chapters discuss Icelandic, Bengali, Quechua, Finnish, Japanese, Amele (a Papuan language), and Tariana (an Amazonian language); there is also a general discussion of European languages. This is a pioneering study providing new and fascinating data, and dealing with a topic of prime theoretical importance to linguists of many persuasions.
Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation
Title | Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation PDF eBook |
Author | Susann Fischer |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2010-06-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027288186 |
This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish) as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal of historical comparative data showing that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have (had) a semantic effect in the Germanic and in the Romance languages, and that they both appear in the same functional category. The loss of stylistic fronting and oblique subjects is seen as an effect of grammaticalisation, where grammaticalisation is taken to be a regular case of parameter change. In contrast to previous and recent approaches to grammaticalisation, however, the author shows that it is not the loss of morphology that triggers grammaticalisation with subsequent word-order changes, but that the word-order change sets off grammaticalisation in the functional categories, which is then followed by the loss of morphology.