[Lingtyp] Terminology query: Obviative constraints

[Juergen Bohnemeyer]

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 relative animacy and topicality (etc.) of core arguments in transitive (and ditransitive) clauses. – Best – Juergen

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From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Christian Lehmann <christian.lehmann at uni-erfurt.de>
Date: Monday, September 18, 2023 at 18:12
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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Terminology query: Obviative constraints
Since animacy (better: empathy 🙂) 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.
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