13.2742, Books: Syntax: Davidse, Lamiroy (eds.)

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Date:  Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:32:22 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  The Nominative & Accusative and Their Counterparts

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Date:  Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:32:22 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  The Nominative & Accusative and Their Counterparts

Title: The Nominative & Accusative and Their Counterparts
Series Title: Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages 4

Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
	   http://www.benjamins.nl		

Editor: Kristin  Davidse
Editor: Béatrice  Lamiroy

Hardback: ISBN: 1588111822, Pages: x, 363 pp., Price: USD 113.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027228140, Pages: x, 363 pp., Price: EUR 125.00

Abstract:

This volume is devoted to the central cases relating to the basic
oppositions between subject-object and agent-patient, viz. nominative
and accusative, as well as their counterparts such as ergative and
absolutive. It aims at contributing to the typological investigation
of these cases by providing descriptive studies of ten different
languages, not only Romance and Germanic languages, but also Polish
and Basque, as well as Cora, Warrwa and Ewe. These studies show that
the formal devices used to mark the two nuclear cases may be quite
diverse (including non-overt and "configurational" coding), but that
all the languages studied crucially display a subject-object
asymmetry, even languages such as Basque and Ewe for which this had
been questioned. One of the most striking subthemes to emerge from
this collection is the complexity of the object-zone, both with regard
to formal and functional diversity. Various studies in the volume also
contribute reflections, couched mainly in broadly cognitive-functional
terms, about the semantic function of the subject-object contrast and
why it is so central across languages.

Table of Contents

Preface  vii
List of abbreviations  viii
1. Introduction
     Kristin Davidse and Béatrice Lamiroy  1
2. Romance transitivity
     Michael D. Herslund  15
3. Objects and quasi-objects: The constellation of the object in
   French
     Ludo Melis  41
4. A construction grammar approach to transitivity in Spanish
     Nicole Delbecque  81
5. Nominative and oblique in English: reflexive clauses as a test case
   for distinct Agent - Patient models
     Kristin Davidse  131
6. Aspects of nominative and accusative in German
     Luk Draye  175
7. The Source-Path-Goal schema and the accusative in interaction with
   the genitive in Polish
     Zofia Kaleta  201
8. Objects, verbs and categories in the Cora lexicon
     Eugene H. Casad  227
9. Ergativity and accusativity in Basque
     R. Larry Trask  265
10. Ergative and accusative patterning in Warrwa
     William B. McGregor  285
11. Constituent order and grammatical relations in Ewe
     Felix K. Ameka  319
Author index  353
Subject index  356

Lingfield(s):  Linguistic Theories
	       Syntax

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

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