[Lingtyp] New Book on Role and Reference Grammar

[Van Valin, Robert]

A new RRG book was published trecently:

Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface: A Role and Reference Grammar Perspective, edited by Robert  D. Van Valin, Jr.

https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-6747-4

The table of contents:

Part 1. Lexical Representation and Argument Structure

Activities, Accomplishments and Causation....................................... 3
Rainer Osswald

Simplex and Complex Predicates in Persian: An RRG Analysis........... 31
Jens Fleischhauer

Linking Syntax and Semantics in Comparatives of Taiwan Sign
Language.................................................................................... 63
Chien-hung Lin & Jung-hsing Chang

Part 2. Argument Marking

Dative Case and Three-Place Predicates in Japanese............................ 91
Hideki Kishimoto

Purposive Case and Semantic Arguments in Australian Western Desert Dialects.... 113
Conor Pyle

A Neo-Jakobsonian Account of Default Cases: Instrumental vs. Dative...... 135
Wataru Nakamura

A Cross-Linguistic Survey of the Instrument-Subject Alternation........ 169
Koen Van Hooste

Two-Theme Constructions and Preposition Assignment in Spanish.... 189
Sergio Ibáñez Cerda

 Part 3. Syntactic Structure

An Analysis of Non-Iconic Word Order in the Bamunka Reference Phrase...... 213
Ciara Anderson

Cosubordination......................................................................... 241
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.

Part 4. Information Structure

An RRG Account of Aspects of the Information Structure-Syntax Interface in Tagalog.. 257
Anja Latrouite & Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.

Why Eve Shouldn’t Eat the Snake: An Intelligent Answer from Corpus-driven Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Biblical Hebrew.................................................. 285
Nicolai Winther-Nielsen


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Robert D. Van Valin Jr
Professor Emeritus
Department of Linguistics
University at Buffalo
The State University of New York
Buffalo, NY  14260 USA
vanvalin at buffalo.edu<mailto:vanvalin at buffalo.edu>

Also:
Univ.-Professor [Emeritus]
Department of General Linguistics
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Universitätsstr. 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Germany
vanvalin at hhu.de

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