Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles write by Seppo Kittilä. This book was released on 2011. Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these chapters primarily deal with lesser studied phenomena, such as animacy effects on spatial cases and the differences between cases and adpositions in the coding of spatial relations. In addition, theoretical and diachronic issues related to case and semantic roles are also discussed; for example, what is case, how do cases develop and what are the functional differences between cases and adpositions? The chapters deal with a variety of different languages including Uralic languages, Indo-European languages, Basque, Korean and Vaeakau-Taumako. The book is appealing to anyone interested in case, animacy and/or semantic roles.
Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations
Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations write by Petra Campe. This book was released on 1994-07-01. Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first of a series of 6 books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European, resulting from work by a team of 20 specialists at the University of Leuven. It is the first time such a large-scale investigation into case has been undertaken, and a remarkable feature of the project is the use of computer corpora of authentic material. This bibliography presents the many dimensions involved in research into case and case-related phenomena. This includes not only morphological case markers, but also the crossconstituent (semantic and grammatical) relations expressed by morphological case or by its various counterparts; morpho-syntactic processes such as transitivity and passivization; and pragmatic and textual considerations. In addition, the bibliography reflects the implications of case research for other disciplines, such as foreign language teaching and artificial intelligence. More than 6000 publications are listed. An extensive Subject Index provides easy access to all the topics and major concepts covered. A Language Index and a Guide to Languages/Language Families conclude the book. The other volumes in the series include The Dative (2 vols), The Genitive, The Nominative and Accusative, and Non-nuclear Cases.
On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases
On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases write by Silvia Luraghi. This book was released on 2003. On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prepositions and cases constitute a fruitful field of research for semantics. The historical development of their meaning can shed light on the relations among the semantic roles of participants and on the organization of conceptual space. Ancient Greek allows an in-depth study of such development. The book, based on a wide, diachronically ordered corpus, aims at providing a usage-based analysis of possible patterns of semantic extension, including the mapping of abstract domains onto the concrete domain of space. An analysis of the Greek data further highlights the interplay between specific spatial relations and the internal structure of the entities involved, and shows how case semantics may account for differences on the referential level, rather than merely express clause internal relations. The first chapter contains a typologically based discussion of semantic roles, which sets the language-specific analysis in a wider framework, showing its general relevance and applicability.
The Semantics of Case
The Semantics of Case - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Semantics of Case write by Olga Kagan. This book was released on 2020-04-16. The Semantics of Case available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on data from a wide range of languages, the book discusses the ways in which case interacts with meaning.
Transitivity
Transitivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transitivity write by Patrick Brandt. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Transitivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to monadic ones, and what are the entailments of the operations that the grammar uses to relate one to the other? Collecting original expert work from acquisition, processing, typological and theoretical syntax-semantics research, this volume provides a state of the art as well as cutting edge discussion of central issues in the realm of Transitivity. These include the definition and role of "Natural Transitivity," the interpretation and repercussions of valency changing operations and differential case marking, and the interactions between (in)transitive Gestalts in different categories and at different levels of representation."
