Grammatical relations and their non-canonical encoding in Baltic / / edited by Axel Holvoet, Nicole Nau

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458563703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 90-272-7039-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (378 p.)
• Collana: Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic ; ; Volume 1
• Disciplina: 491.9
• Soggetti: Baltic languages - Grammaticalization; Baltic languages - Grammar; Baltic languages - Case; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Grammatical Relationsand their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Argument marking and grammatical relations in Baltic: An overview; 1. The project; 2. Alignment and case marking in Baltic; 3. Baltic in a typological context: Alternatives to the transitive pattern; 4. Differential and non-canonical marking; 5. Canonical marking; 6. Concluding remarks and chapter summaries; Abbreviations; Sources; References; Case and word order in Lithuanian infinitival clauses revisited; 1. Introduction; 2. Basics of the Minimalist case theory; 3. Franks & Lavine (2006)4. Franks & Lavine (2006) revised; 5. Typological parallels; 6. Back to Lithuanian: A new analysis; 7. Conclusions and implications; Abbreviations; References; Non-canonical grammatical relations in a modal construction: The Latvian debitive; 1. Introductory remarks; 2. The debitive: A modal form with atypical syntactic properties; 3. Monoclausal and biclausal debitives; 4. The argument structure of modals; 5. Grammatical relations and case marking with the debitive: Earlier discussion; 6. Grammatical relations ; with the debitive; 7. Some theoretical considerations; 8. Shifts in the case marking of the B argument9. The debitive and voice; 10. The debitive and splits; Abbreviations; References; Alternations in argument realization and problematic cases of subjecthood in Lithuanian; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of Lithuanian swarm alternations; 3. Semantic properties of the verbs and their arguments in Lithuanian swarm alternation; 4. Discourse-pragmatic functions of the Lithuanian swarm alternation; 5. Non-prototypical subjects in the Lithuanian swarm alternation; 6. Conclusion; Abbreviations; Sources; References; References; Subjecthood in specificational copular constructions in Lithuanian1. Introduction; 2. The treatment of copular constructions in Cognitive Grammar; 3. Defining specificational copular constructions; 4. Short review of the subject definition in Cognitive Grammar; 5. Subjecthood in specificational copular constructions; 6. Concluding remarks; Abbreviations; References; References; Differential object marking in Latgalian; 1. Introduction; 2. Morphology; 3. Genitive marking with transitive verbs: Clause-level properties; 4. Different marking for different kinds of NPs; 5. Intransitive verbs with genitive arguments6. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Sources; References; The independent partitive genitive in Lithuanian; 1. Introduction; 2. Implicit quantifier; 3. Implicit quantifier and aspect; 4. Intensional contexts and negation; 5. Conclusions; Abbreviations; References; On the non-canonical marking of the highest-ranking argument in Lithuanian and Icelandic: Steps towa; 1. Sketch of the project; 2. Theoretical background; 3. A first analysis of verb classes and case marking patterns in Lithuanian and Icelandic; 4. Conclusions and outlook; Abbreviations
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper is a first report on an ongoing project aiming at building up a database of non-canonical argument marking in Lithuanian in contrast to other languages with relatively rich systems of morphological cases. The language with which we begin the comparison is Icelandic. The overarching aim consists not only in a unified inventorisation of relevant units, but in disclosing (i) regularities in the alternation of coding patterns and (ii) the factors underlying such variation. We will concentrate on case marking; this however implies agreement patterns as well, insofar as in these two langu