The role of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors in the development of case /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
[2009]
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 108. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Introduction: the role of semantic, pragmatic and discourse factors in the development of case / Jóhanna Barðdal & Shobhana L. Chelliah
- Pt. 1. Semantically and aspectually motivated synchronic case variation
- Case variation in Gothic absolute constructions / Tonya Kim Dewey & Yasmin Syed
- Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of object alternation in Early Vedic / Eystein Dahl
- Pt. 2. Discourse motivated subject marking
- The case of the shifty ergative marker : a pragmatic shift in the ergative marker of one Australian mixed language / Felicity Meakins
- How useful is case morphology? : the loss of the Old French two-case system within a theory of preferred argument structure / Ulrich Detges
- Pt. 3. Reduction or expansion of case marker distribution
- The development of case in Germanic / Jóhanna Barðdal
- A usage-based approach to change : Old Russian possessive constructions / Hanne Martine Eckhoff
- Lacking in Latvian : case variation from a cognitive and constructional perspective / Sturla Berg-Olsen
- Verb classes and dative objects in Insular Scandinavian / Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
- Transitive adjectives in Japanese / Daniela Caluianu
- Pt. 4. Case syncretism motivated by syntax, semantics or language contact
- Patterns of development, patterns of syncretism of relational morphology in the Bodic languages / Michael Noonan
- The evolution of local cases and their grammatical equivalent in Greek and Latin / Silvia Luraghi
- Argument structure and alignment variations and changes in Late Latin / Michela Cennamo
- Case loss in Texas German : the influence of semantic and pragmatic factors / Hans C. Boas
- Pt. 5. Case splits motivated by pragmatics, metonymy and subjectification
- Semantic role to new information in Meithei / Shobhana L. Chelliah
- From less personal to more personal : subjectification of ni-marked NPs in Japanese discourse / Misumi Sadler.