Datives and Other Cases Between argument structure and event structure
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2006
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9789027230850
Publisert
2006-04-19
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John Benjamins Publishing Co
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850 gr
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245 mm
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164 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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This volume is a much-needed overview of the current take on datives from a number of different theoretical perspectives. <i>Datives and Other Cases</i> will certainly appeal to linguists interested in the German dative but also to non-Germanicists who are concerned with finding the right analysis, both syntactic and semantic, of datives in other languages.
- Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Swarthmore College, in Studies in Language 32:1, 2008,
This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of research into datives and other morphological cases. The contributors, among them leading scholars in the field, present fresh insights into traditional issues such as the dichotomy between lexical and structural case, and open up fascinating new areas of research. A recurrent feature of the majority of contributions is their combined syntax-semantics perspective. Germanic varieties, Serbian, Albanian and other Balkan languages alongside Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog are discussed from various theoretical angles such as mainstream generativism, lexical-functional grammar, and functional typology. Despite the broad range of facts spanning the distance between acquisition data and dialectology, the papers are connected by a renewed interest in form-function correspondencies. This volume will be welcomed by theoretical linguists and typologists with an interest in argument and event structure, linguists studying the case systems of individual languages and researchers in search for up-to-date discussion of Germanic datives.
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1. Preface; 2. I INTRODUCTION; 3. Datives: structural vs. inherent - abstract vs. morphological - autonomous vs. combinatory - universally vs. language-specifically configured (by Abraham, Werner); 4. II FOCUS ON GERMANIC; 5. German inherent datives and argument structure (by McFadden, Thomas); 6. Remarks on the projection of dative arguments in German (by Meinunger, Andre); 7. Receiving and perceiving datives (Cipients) - A view from German (by Brandt, Patrick); 8. The datives that aren't born equal: Beneficiaries and the dative passive (by Cook, Philippa); 9. The interpretation of German datives and English have (by McIntyre, Andrew); 10. Dative and indirect object in German dialects: Evidence from relative clauses (by Fleischer, Jurg); 11. Indirect objects and Dative case in monolingual German and bilingual German/Romance language acquisition (by Schmitz, Katrin); 12. III BEYOND GERMANIC: FROM ALBANIAN TO TAGALOG; 13. Unaccusatives with dative causers and experiencers: A unified account (by Kallulli, Dalina); 14. Putting things into perspective: The function of the dative in adjectival constructions in Serbian (by Krivokapic, Jelena); 15. Widening the perspective: Argumenthood and syntax in Chinese, Japanese and Tagalog (by Bisang, Walter); 16. Index
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789027230850
Publisert
2006-04-19
Utgiver
Vendor
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Vekt
850 gr
Høyde
245 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet