LEADER 03543nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910815765503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a3-11-091246-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110912463 035 $a(CKB)2670000000250693 035 $a(EBL)938535 035 $a(OCoLC)843635771 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000559614 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11344675 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000559614 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10567051 035 $a(PQKB)10985992 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC938535 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00009892 035 $a(DE-B1597)45614 035 $a(OCoLC)979694128 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110912463 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL938535 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10597304 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000250693 100 $a19990417d1999 uys 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCases and thematic roles $eergative, accusative and active /$fBeatrice Primus 205 $aReprint 2010 210 $aTubingen $cNiemeyer$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) 225 1 $aLinguistische Arbeiten ;$v393 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-484-30393-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$t1 Introduction --$t2 Cases --$t3 Thematic Roles --$t4 Morphosyntactic Expression of Thematic Information --$t5 Phrase Structure and Basic Word Order --$t6 Predicate Agreement --$t7 Passive and Antipassive --$t8 General Summary --$tReferences --$tAuthor Index --$tLanguage Index --$tSubject Index 330 $aThis book is concerned with the mapping of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, onto syntactic cases, such as nominative or ergative, or onto structural relations. It shows that cases and structural relations code different aspects of thematic structure. The thematic determination of the structural relation of an argument is confined to its position in the thematic structure of the predicate. Case mapping is determined by the number of basic thematic concepts involved in this structure. This fact and other facts presented in the book presuppose an approach to thematic roles that decomposes them into more basic concepts involving volitionality, causation, activity, sentience, possession, etc., and motivate the hypothesis that syntactic cases cannot be derived from structural relations in universal grammar. The phenomena pertaining to relational typology that classifies languages into ergative, accusative and active languages are shown to be restricted to case mapping. The specific thematic determination of case mapping and the hierarchical organization of case systems explain not only the existence of these types of mapping, but also the fact that ergative and active phenomena are typically case-based. The book provides a global cross-linguistic perspective, but German data recurrently serve as an illustration of the main theoretical assumptions. 410 0$aLinguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ;$v393. 606 $aEnglish language$xCase 606 $aEnglish language$xSemantics 615 0$aEnglish language$xCase. 615 0$aEnglish language$xSemantics. 676 $a425 686 $aET 660$2rvk 700 $aPrimus$b Beatrice$0690228 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815765503321 996 $aCases and thematic roles$91241427 997 $aUNINA