<div><span style="font-size:13px;">Dear typologists,</span></div><div><div><div><div><p>I would like to draw your attention to a new book that has been published:<br /> <br /> "Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic"<br /> Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau<br /> (University of Warsaw & Vilnius University / Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan & Vilnius University)<br /> </p><p>Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic 1. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2014.  </p><p><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",verdana,"arial unicode ms",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;line-height:16.4667px;">This is the first of three volumes dealing with clausal architecture, grammatical relations, case-marking and the syntax–semantics interface in Baltic. It focuses on the grammatical relations of subject and object and the viability of these notions in languages like Lithuanian and Latvian, which have a rich case morphology and show many deviations from the canonical nominative-accusative pattern of case-marking. The issues examined include differential object marking, subjecthood in specificational copular constructions, ‘swarm’-type alternations and what they tell us about grammatical relations, special types of subject and object marking in non-finite clauses, and non-canonical grammatical relations induced by modal predicates. One study provides a comparative outlook towards Icelandic, another language noted for its complex marking of grammatical relations. The articles in the volume represent various theoretical frameworks.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:13px;">URL: </span><a href="https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/vargreb.1/main" style="font-size:13px;">https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/vargreb.1/main</a></p><p><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",verdana,"arial unicode ms",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;line-height:16.4667px;">This series of five volumes is the outcome of a research project coordinated by Vilnius University, aiming at bundling research efforts of scholars from different countries in the domain of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian and Latvian). Baltic linguistics has long been fraught with a strong diachronic bias, but there is now a growing body of theoretically and typologically informed work on these languages. The series focuses on a core domain of Baltic grammar, viz. that of clausal architecture, case marking and grammatical relations, and the syntax-semantic interface. In addition to three collections of articles the series will also comprise two monographs, dealing with copular sentences and argument alternations respectively. The first volume to appear in the series is concerned with non-canonical grammatical relations in Baltic. The next volumes will deal with a variety of issues in the domain of valency and argument realization.</span></p><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",verdana,"arial unicode ms",helvetica,sans-serif;color:#003399;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;">Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic</h1><div><span style="font-size:1.5em;">Table of Contents</span></div><table style="font-size:13px;padding:0px;margin:0px;color:#000000;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",verdana,"arial unicode ms",helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;text-align:start;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:599px;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;">Preface</div></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:55px;white-space:nowrap;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;float:right;">vii</div></td></tr><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:599px;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;"><a href="https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/vargreb.1.01hol" style="text-decoration:none;color:#ff5500;">Argument marking and grammatical relations in Baltic: An overview</a></div><div style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;font-style:italic;">Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau</div></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:55px;white-space:nowrap;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;float:right;">1 – 41</div></td></tr><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:599px;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;"><a href="https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/vargreb.1.02ark" style="text-decoration:none;color:#ff5500;">Case and word order in Lithuanian infinitival clauses revisited</a></div><div style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;font-style:italic;">Peter M. Arkadiev</div></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:55px;white-space:nowrap;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;float:right;">43 – 95</div></td></tr><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:599px;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;"><a href="https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/vargreb.1.03hol" style="text-decoration:none;color:#ff5500;">Non-canonical grammatical relations in a modal construction: The Latvian debitive</a></div><div style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;font-style:italic;">Axel Holvoet and Marta Grzybowska</div></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:55px;white-space:nowrap;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;float:right;">97 – 135</div></td></tr><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:599px;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;"><a href="https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/vargreb.1.04len" style="text-decoration:none;color:#ff5500;">Alternations in argument realization and problematic cases of subjecthood in Lithuanian</a></div><div style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;font-style:italic;">Kristina Lenartaitė-Gotaučienė</div></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:55px;white-space:nowrap;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;float:right;">137 – 180</div></td></tr><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:599px;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;"><a href="https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/vargreb.1.05mik" style="text-decoration:none;color:#ff5500;">Subjecthood in specificational copular constructions in Lithuanian</a></div><div style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;font-style:italic;">Rolandas Mikulskas</div></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:55px;white-space:nowrap;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;float:right;">181 – 206</div></td></tr><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:599px;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;"><a href="https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/vargreb.1.06nau" style="text-decoration:none;color:#ff5500;">Differential object marking in Latgalian</a></div><div style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;font-style:italic;">Nicole Nau</div></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:55px;white-space:nowrap;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;float:right;">207 – 255</div></td></tr><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:599px;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;"><a href="https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/vargreb.1.07ser" style="text-decoration:none;color:#ff5500;">The independent partitive genitive in Lithuanian</a></div><div style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;font-style:italic;">Ilja A. Seržant</div></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:55px;white-space:nowrap;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;float:right;">257 – 299</div></td></tr><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:599px;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;"><a href="https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/vargreb.1.08wie" style="text-decoration:none;color:#ff5500;">On the non-canonical marking of the highest-ranking argument in Lithuanian and Icelandic: Steps toward a database</a></div><div style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;font-style:italic;">Björn Wiemer and Valgerður Bjarnadóttir</div></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:55px;white-space:nowrap;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;float:right;">301 – 361</div></td></tr><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:599px;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;">Language index</div></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:55px;white-space:nowrap;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;float:right;">363</div></td></tr><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:599px;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;">Name index</div></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:55px;white-space:nowrap;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;float:right;">365 – 366</div></td></tr><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:599px;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;">Subject index</div></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:9.5pt;width:55px;white-space:nowrap;"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0em;padding:0.66em 0px 0px;vertical-align:top;background-color:transparent;float:right;">367 – 370</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><pre> </pre></div></div></div></div><div>-- <br />Peter Arkadiev, PhD<br />Institute of Slavic Studies<br />Russian Academy of Sciences <br />Leninsky prospekt 32-A 119334 Moscow<br />peterarkadiev@yandex.ru<br /><a href="http://www.inslav.ru/ob-institute/sotrudniki/279-peter-arkadiev">http://www.inslav.ru/ob-institute/sotrudniki/279-peter-arkadiev</a></div><div> </div>