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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I'm afraid I don't understand your
      qualms. An alternation is not a constraint, and voices and
      diatheses are no alignment constraints.<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,
            Christian! But wouldn’t those terms again also extend to
            voice alternations, including European-style active/passive
            alternations? I’m not looking for a cover term, mind you,
            but rather specifically for a term that narrowly denotes
            those constraints that specifically concern the
            <i>relative</i> animacy and topicality (etc.) of core
            arguments in transitive (and ditransitive) clauses. – Best –
            Juergen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Juergen
                Bohnemeyer (He/Him)<br>
                Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>
                University at Buffalo <br>
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                Office: 642 Baldy Hall, UB North Campus<br>
                Mailing address: 609 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 <br>
                Phone: (716) 645 0127 <br>
                Fax: (716) 645 3825<br>
                Email: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a
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                hours Tu/Th 3:30-4:30pm in 642 Baldy or via Zoom
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                There’s A Crack In Everything - That’s How The Light
                Gets In <br>
                (Leonard Cohen)  </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                    style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
                  </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lingtyp
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org"><lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org></a> on
                  behalf of Christian Lehmann
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de"><christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de></a><br>
                  <b>Date: </b>Monday, September 18, 2023 at 18:12<br>
                  <b>To: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org"><lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org></a><br>
                  <b>Subject: </b>Re: [Lingtyp] Terminology query:
                  Obviative constraints<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Since
                animacy (better: empathy
              </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">🙂</span><span
                style="font-size:11.0pt">) and topicality are both
                related to reference, the term you are looking for could
                be something like 'reference-conditioned alignment
                constraint'. It would cover not only empathy and
                topicality, but also other referential properties like
                specificity, which play a role in alignment, too.<br>
                Best, Christian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Prof. em. Dr. Christian
                  Lehmann<br>
                  Rudolfstr. 4<br>
                  99092 Erfurt<br>
                  <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Deutschland</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Tel.:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">+49/361/2113417<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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      <p style="font-size:90%">Prof. em. Dr. Christian Lehmann<br>
        Rudolfstr. 4<br>
        99092 Erfurt<br>
        <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Deutschland</span></p>
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            <td>Web:</td>
            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.christianlehmann.eu">https://www.christianlehmann.eu</a></td>
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