Voice and grammatical relations : in honor of Masayoshi Shibatani / edited by Tasaku Tsunoda, Taro Kageyama.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shibatani, Masayoshi.

Tsunoda, Tasaku.

Kageyama, Tarō, 1949-

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 65.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Voice.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammatical categories.

Physical Description:

xviii, 342 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents thirteen original papers dealing with various aspects of two related areas of research of major concern to linguists of all theoretical persuasions: voice and grammatical relations. The papers are written from typological, functional, and cognitive perspectives, and contain a number of general studies as well as studies focusing on specific issues, and offer a wealth of data from a broad range of languages. The volume provides up-to-date discussions of an array of issues of theoretical concern, including the nature of grammatical relations, voice in agent/patient systems, the expression vs. non-expression of participant roles, and personal vs. impersonal passives. The papers in the volume demonstrate that investigations into the nature of voice and grammatical relations can still yield fresh theoretical and typological insights.

Contents:

Voice and Grammatical Relations

Editorial page

Title

LCC data

Photo: Professor Masayoshi Shibatani

Table of contents

List of contributors

Preface

Selected bibliography of Masayoshi Shibatani

Books and monographs

Articles

The Hawaiian passive/imperative particle

1. Introduction

2. The active imperative

3. The passive/imperative particle

4. An idiomatic use of the passive/imperative particle

5. The use of `ia in noun modifiers

6. The evolution of the particle

7. Summary

Notes

References

Indiscrete grammatical relations

1. Promotional vs. non-promotional passives*

2. The Lunda passive

3. Transitivity and passivization

4. Direct objecthood and passivization

4.1. Bi-transitives with an inherent dative

4.2. Bi-transitives with a non-human locative

4.3. Bi-transitive with a human locative

4.4. Bi-transitives with derived direct objects

5. Subject properties of the topic-of-passive

5.1. Passive and coreference under EQUI

5.2. Passive and reflexivization

5.3. Passive and relativization

6. Discussion

6.1. Diachrony and hybrid grammatical relations

6.2. Inverse or passive?

6.3. Non-discreteness, markedness and syntactic prototypes

Abbreviations

Valency sets in Kashmiri

Introduction1

1. Conceptual and terminological preliminaries

2. Derived monovalent predicates (``anticausatives'')

3. Bivalent derived from monovalent predicates

4. The syntax of bivalent predicates derived from monovalents

5. Trivalents derived from bivalents

6. The syntax of derived trivalent predicates

7. Causatives: Morphology

8. Causatives: Semantics and lexical structure

9. Ambiguities in the system

10. Causatives with two intermediate agents

11. Derived polyvalents and the ergative.

12. Causatives and the ergative

13. Valency sets, the Person Hierarchy and pronominal suffixes

14. Valency sets and the passive

15. Noun incorporation and valency

16. The phrasal causative

17. Compound verbs and the causative

18. Kashmiri valency and modern Indo-Aryan

19. Kashmiri valency and old Indo-Aryan

20. Kashmiri's valency and linguistic theory

Property description as a voice phenomenon

Introduction*

1. Event description and property description

2. Peculiar passives as property descriptions

2.1. English peculiar passives

2.2. Japanese peculiar passives

3. Middle constructions and event suppression

4. Reflexive constructions as property descriptions

5. On the nature of valence decrease in property description

6. Conclusion

Dimensions of defocusing

1. Canonical event presentation

1.1. Archetypes

1.2. Descriptive constructs

1.3. Alignment

2. Prominence dimensions

2.1. Trajector choice

2.2. Profile adjustment

2.3. Landmark choice

3. Specificity dimensions

3.1. Despecification

3.2. Non-delimitation

4. Conclusion

On grammatical relations as constraints on referent identification

1. Introduction*

2. Ostension and inference

3. Grammatical relations

Participant roles, thematic roles and syntactic relations

2. Levels of representation

3. Situation structure

3.1. Elements

3.2. Involvement and control

3.3. Participant roles

3.4. Macroroles

3.5. Participant role accumulation

4. Causation and benefaction

5. Possession and participation

6. Incorporation of body parts

7. Conclusion

References.

Information focus in relational clause structure

1. Focus-oriented split intransitivity: A markedness paradox

2. A case study: Packaging variants in Tundra Yukaghir

2.1. Terminological and notational conventions

2.2. Distribution of packaging variants

2.3. Encoding of packaging variants and distribution of nominal markers

3. Disambiguation of A and P and the emergence of focus-oriented splits

3.1. Information-structure markers and default role interpretation

3.2. Differential P marking

3.3. The markedness paradox revisited

3.4. Synchrony and diachrony in the emergence of focus-oriented splits

Voice without subjects, objects, or obliques

1. Mohawk basic argument structure

2. Middles

3. Reflexives

4. Reciprocals

5. Resultatives

6. Causatives

7. Applicatives

8. Conclusion

Chukchi reciprocals (with an appendix on Koryak and Itelmen)

1. Introductory: Grammatical notes

2. Lexical reciprocals

3. Reciprocals with the suffix -tku/-tko

4. Reciprocals with the suffix -w"36lgamma

4.1. Intransitive reciprocal constructions

4.2. Reciprocal constructions containing an object. Reflexive-reciprocal pronoun?

4.3. Successive subevents

4.4. Causatives from suffixed reciprocals

4.5. The suffix -w"36lgamma on nouns, pronouns and adverbs

4.6. Nomina actionis

4.7. Lexicalization

5. Reciprocal constructions with the pronominal adverb "36rgammaicgammau `they mutually'

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Intransitive reciprocal constructions

5.3. Transitive reciprocal constructions

5.4. Pleonastic use of "36rgammaicgammau with suffixed reciprocals

5.5. The use of the adverb "36rgammaicgammau with nouns and adverbs

5.6. Nomina actionis

6. Reciprocals with the suffix -cit/-cet

6.1. Introductory.

6.2. Reciprocal meaning

6.3. Pleonastic use of -cit/-cet

6.4. Verbs of competition. Derivatives from verbs, adjectives and nouns

6.5. Intensive meaning

6.6. Unclear usages of the suffix -cit/-cet

7. Reciprocals in Koryak

7.1. Reciprocal suffixes

7.2. Reflexive-reciprocal pronoun

8. Reciprocals in Itelmen

Sources

The regular and the extended comitative reciprocal construction, illustrated from German

1. Aim

2. The regular coordinative/comitative alternation

2.1. Symmetry

2.2. Intransitive verbs

2.3. Transitive verbs

3. The coordinative/comitative alternation analogically extended

3.1. Transitive verbs asymmetric on their own

3.2. Transitive verbs potentially symmetric on their own

3.3. Where judgments differ

4. Beyond German

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Questionnaire study on the acceptability of extended comitative reciprocal constructions

Auxiliation of `give' verbs in Russian

2. Verbs of giving: Literal and figurative uses

3. Hortative constructions in Russian

4. Permissive constructions with the infinitive of the lexical verb

4.1. Negation

4.2. Impersonal passives

4.3. Animacy of the Agent

4.4. Animacy of the Recipient

4.5. Idiomatization of permissive constructions with `give' verbs

5. Permissive constructions in different types of speech acts: Constructions with the future indicative form of the lexical verb

6. Conclusions

Reflexive and middle constructions of Warrungu (Australia)

1. Introductory notes

2. Outline of the language

3. Kemmer's study of reflexive and middle voice

4. Aim and outline of this paper

5. Vt-gali-ZERO `reflexive, middle'

5.1. Semantics (1)

5.2. Syntax

5.3. Semantics (2).

6. Vi-gali-ZERO `middle'

7. Vt-li-ZERO `reflexive, middle'

7.1. Semantics (1)

7.2. Syntax

7.3. Semantics (2)

7.4. Idioms

8. Vi-li-ZERO `middle'

8.1. Semantics (1)

8.2. Formation

8.3. Syntax

8.4. Semantics (2)

9. Morphosyntactic status of reflexives/middles

10. Claims and generalizations about reflexives and middles

11. Conclusion

Language index

Name index

Subject index

Typological Studies in Language.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612155864

9781282155862

1282155865

9789027293565

9027293562

OCLC:

133163893