Non-nuclear cases /
This paper focuses on oblique variation in the passive. It relies on insights on causal modeling to study the construction types available to express a passive or medio-passive meaning in Spanish. Oblique variation is argued to fulfill an important function in the profiling of the relation between a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2014]
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| Series: | Case and grammatical relations across languages ;
volume 6. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Non-Nuclear Cases; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of content; Preface; List of abbreviations; Nuclear and non-nuclear cases; 1. Terminological confusion; 2. Criteria; 3. Theoretical frameworks; 4. Event schemas; 5. Form-meaning correlates: Some specific cases; 5.1 Specifying a quantitative or qualitative property of the process; 5.2 Introducing participants; 5.3 Expressing a spatial or temporal reference point; 5.4 Expressing "logical" relations; 6. Chapters in this volume; References; Obliques: Some that are, and some that aren't; 1. Introduction; 2. The postpositions.
- 2.1 The inventory of free forms2.2 Syntax and semantics of postpositional phrases; 2.2.1 The objects of postpositional phrases; 2.2.2 Word order; 2.2.3 Marking of third singular objects; 2.2.4 Postpositions and locative particles; 3. Typical usages of the free postpositions; 3.1 hecé 'in, at, on, towards'; 3.2 hapwá 'on, above, over'; 3.3 hetyé 'beneath, underneath, below, at the foot of'; 3.4 hemí 'to, for, with, on account of, in the midst of'; 3.5 The accompaniment hamwán 'with'; 3.6 The instrumental k9·me'e; 3.6.1 The instrumental prototypical usage.
- 3.6.2 Manner as current state of affairs3.6.3 Instrumental as source; 3.6.4 Instrumental as source of effect; 3.6.5 Instrumental as source of sustenance; 3.6 Instrumental as indicator of time period; 3.7 Discourse usages of the Instrumental; 3.7.1 Absolutive form of Instrumental: Closure of a scene; 3.7.2 Instrumental use in oblique relative clauses; 3.7.3 Instrumental as clausal temporal subordinator; 3.7.4 Quotative complement landmark; 3.7.5 Expressing purpose clauses; 4. Cora postpositions: Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Connate roles in Nyulnyul; 1. Introduction.
- 2. Relevant facts of Nyulnyul morphology2.1 The postpositions; 2.2 Case marking of free pronouns; 2.3 Bound pronouns in the inflecting verb; 3. Semiotic scheme for grammatical relations; 4. Experiential roles; 4.1 Classification of experiential roles in Nyulnyul; 4.1 Centre; 4.2 Nuclear relations; 4.3 Non-nuclear core relations; 4.4 Layering and relation sharing; 4.5 Independent CRs; 5. Conclusion; Endnotes; References; German two-way prepositions and related phenomena; 0. Introduction; 1. Two-way prepositions in German grammaticography; 1.1 Traditional accounts.
- 1.1.1 Atelic movement within the search domain1.1.2 Telic movement away from the search domain; 1.1.3 Telic movement crossing the search domain; 1.1.4 Telic durative movement within the search domain; 1.1.5 Endpoint focus; 1.1.6 Accusative without "change of location" or "movement"; 1.2 Paul's alternative; 1.3 Abraham's leap forward; 2. An alternative analysis and some remaining problems; 2.1 Emerging vs existing or emerging vs non-emerging relationships?; 2.2 Differentiating the dative subtypes; 2.3 Indications of a system in transition; 3. The case of über; 3.1 A typical case distribution.
