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Case, animacy and semantic roles / edited by Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi, Jussi Ylikoski.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Typological studies in language ; v. 99.
- Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 99
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Case.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Animacy.
- Semantics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these chapters primarily deal with lesser studied phenomena, such as animacy effects on spatial cases and the differences between cases and adpositions in the coding of spatial relations. In addition, theoretical and diachronic issues related to case and semantic roles are also discussed; for example, what
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Semantic roles and animacy
- pt. 2. Semantic roles and cases vs. adpositions
- pt. 3. Animacy and case
- pt. 4. Diachrony and case
- pt. 5. Theoretical issues.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613286710
- 9781283286718
- 1283286718
- 9789027284815
- 9027284814
- OCLC:
- 755415890
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