Causation, permission, and transfer : argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs / edited by Brian Nolan, Institute of Technology, Blachardstown Dublin ; Gudrun Rawoens, Ghent University ; Elke Diedrichsen, Microsoft European Headquarters, Dublin, Ireland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nolan, Brian, 1952- editor.

Rawoens, Gudrun, 1969- editor.

Diedrichsen, Elke, editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 167.

Studies in Language Companion series, 0165-7763 ; volume 167

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causative (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Principles and parameters (Linguistics).

Generative grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This chapter aims to study the prepositional marking and the postpositional marking of the recipient in the Persian non-canonical ditransitive alignments, which are associated respectively with a particular role that the recipient as topic or exhaustive focus plays in the information-structural representation of the benefactive event. I will argue that overriding of the theme and recipient by each other with respect to topicality, grammatically achieved by utilizing two distinct operations including preposing and left-dislocation, determines the intended grammatical marking of the recipient. Moreover, the pragmatic alternation between the two types of coding portrays a constructional pattern which will be accounted for in terms of a Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) framework.

Contents:

Causation, Permission, and Transfer

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

References

Chapter 1. Encoding transfer, let/allow and permission in Modern Irish

1. Introduction

2. Transfer constructions

3. Give_permission constructions

4. Get_Permission to achieve a particular purpose

5. Let_allow constructions

6. Permit constructions

7. Discussion

Chapter 2. Degrees of causativity in German lassen causative constructions

2. Other construction types with lassen in German

3. The syntax and semantics of causatives in a cross-linguistic perspective

4. Lassen constructions in German: Syntax, argument structure, meaning variants and the impact of cu

5. Summary and conclusion

Chapter 3. Grammaticalization of 'give' in Slavic between drift and contact

2. Literal 'give' in Slavic

3. Causatives and related constructions

4. Modal constructions

5. Imperative constructions

6. Peripheral constructions

7. Concluding remarks

Corpora

Chapter 4. 'Give' and semantic maps

2. Testing the notion of 'semantic distance' on 'give'

3. Zeugma and intermediate uses of 'give'

4. Gradience of acceptability of a paraphrase

5. Analogy and semantic map of 'give' uses

6. Conclusion

Chapter 5. How Europeans GIVE

2. The category GIVE and linguistic strategies of expressing it

3. Data and methods

4. Quantitative analyses

5. Summary and outlook

Chapter 6. Ditransitive constructions in Gan Chinese

2. GIVE in Mandarin and Gan Chinese: A contrastive look

3. Emergence of inverted DOC

4. Valency increasing and preposition incorporation

5. Concluding remarks

References.

Chapter 7. The argument realisation of give and take verbs in Māori

2. Give verbs in Māori

3. Take verbs in Māori

4. Give, take and Māori case-system

5. Conclusion

List of abbreviations

Chapter 8. GIVE and its arguments in Bohairic Coptic

2. Differential Goal Marking: n-/na= vs. e-/ero= as markers of the third argument

3. Variations on a Theme

4. Summary and conclusions

Abbreviations

Chapter 9. Giving is receiving

2. Background on Shaowu

3. Origin and polysemy of the lexical morpheme [tie53]

4. From GET to GIVE

Acknowledgements

Chapter 10. Enabling and allowing in Hebrew

1. Introduction: Hebrew Three Argument Dative constructions

2. Usage-Based Construction Grammar

3. Data and method

4. Results and discussion

Chapter 11. Low-level patterning of pronominal subjects and verb tenses in English

2. Corpora used in this study

3. Methodology

4. Low-level patterning with GIVE-type verbs

5. Subjectivity in give-type verbs

6. Concluding remarks

Appendix

Chapter 12. The morphological, syntactic and semantic interface of the verb GIVE in Lithuanian

2. Framework, data and methodology

3. The meaning of the verb GIVE in Lithuanian

4. Morpho-syntactic characteristics of Lithuanian verb GIVE

Chapter 13. Rise and fall of the take-future in written Estonian

2. Etymology, basic meaning and grammaticalization of the verb võtma 'take' and the construction V(q

3. Vernacular origin of the construction võtma + Vinf1

4. Old Written Estonian.

5. Corpus study of the construction võtma + Vinf1

Data sources

Chapter 14. Causation in the Australian dialects Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara

1. Australian languages

2. Causation seen through Role and Reference Grammar

3. Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara verbs and nominals

4. Causation: Definitions and description of the phenomena

5. Multiple verb constructions

6. The three causative types of compact/and/purp

7. Concluding discussion

Pronouns

Chapter 15. The fare causative derivation in Italian

2. Problematic claims from the literature

3. The Italian fare derivation in the wider typological context

4. Derivation schemas for Italian fare-causatives

5. Conclusions

Chapter 16. Information-structural encoding of recipient in non-canonical alignments of Persian

2. Persian monotransitive alignments

3. The ditransitive alignment with OBJ in Persian

4. Non-canonical ditransitives: A constructional account

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027268976

9027268975

OCLC:

896791635