Studies in Ditransitive Constructions - 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 Studies in Ditransitive Constructions write by Andrej Malchukov. This book was released on 2010-12-23. Studies in Ditransitive Constructions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This rich volume deals comprehensively with cross-linguistic variation in the morphosyntax of ditransitive constructions: constructions formed with verbs (like give) that take Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. For the first time, a broadly cross-linguistic perspective is adopted. The present volume, consisting of an overview article and twenty-odd in-depth studies of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from different continents, arose from the conference on ditransitive constructions held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) in 2007. It opens with the editors' survey article providing an overview of cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, followed by the questionnaire on ditransitive constructions, compiled by the editors in order to elicit various properties of these patterns. The editors' overview discusses formal properties of ditransitive constructions as well as behavioral (or syntactic) and lexical properties (i.e., the extension of ditransitive constructions across different verb classes). The volume includes 23 contributions describing properties of ditransitive constructions in languages from all over the world, written by leading experts. Care has been taken that the contributions to the volume will be representative of structural, geographic and genealogical diversity in the domain of ditransitive constructions. Thus the present volume provides a unique source of information on typological diversity of ditransitive constructions. It is expected that it will be of central interest to all scholars and advanced students of linguistics, especially to those working in the field of language typology and comparative syntax.
Studies in Ditransitive Constructions
Studies in Ditransitive Constructions - 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 Studies in Ditransitive Constructions write by Andreĭ Lʹvovich Malʹchukov. This book was released on 2010. Studies in Ditransitive Constructions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, syntactic patterns of 'give'-like verbs taking Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. This volume includes a typological overview of ditransitive constructions, the editors' questionnaire, as well as studies of ditransitive constructions in languages from all over the world.
Ditransitive Constructions in a Cross-linguistic Perspective
Ditransitive Constructions in a Cross-linguistic Perspective - 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 Ditransitive Constructions in a Cross-linguistic Perspective write by Agnes Korn. This book was released on 2018. Ditransitive Constructions in a Cross-linguistic Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The issue of ditransitive constructions has enjoyed increased attention over the last decade, and a number of important studies appeared. However, a number of questions are not quite explored yet. The contributions in this volume address a variety of languages, provide rich new data on the distribution of ditransitive constructions in lesser-researched languages, and substantiate the findings with corpus data. Recurrent themes in the present collection include the factors underlying the choice of construction in the ditransitive alternation, the most important of which are lexical choices, information structure and discourse prominence of theme and recipient argument.
Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas
Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas - 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 Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas write by Bernard Comrie. This book was released on 2012. Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to have fully nominalized relative clauses and no relative pronouns, while other typologically diverse languages tend to have relative clauses which are similar to main or independent clauses. Languages of the Americas, with their rich genetic diversity, have all been under the influence of European languages, whether Spanish, English or Portuguese, a situation that may be expected to have influenced their grammatical patterns. The present volume focuses on two tasks: The first deals with the discussion of functional principles related to relative clause formation: diachrony and paths of grammaticalization, simplicity vs. complexity, and formalization of rules to capture semantic-syntactic correlations. The second provides a typological overview of relative clauses in nine different languages going from north to south in the Americas.
Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar
Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar - 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 Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar write by Hans Christian Boas. This book was released on 2010. Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functioanl factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thus, the meaning pole of constructions should be regarded as the primary basis for comparisons of constructions across languages - the form pole is only secondary. This volume shows that constructions are viable descriptive and analytical tools for cross-linguistic comparisons that make it possible to capture both language-specific (idiosyncratic) properties as well as cross-linguistic generalizations.
