The role of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors in the development of case
By: edited by Johanna Barddal, Shobhana L. Chelliah.
Contributors: Jóhanna Barðdal, 1969-; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi, 1961-
Series: Studies in language companion series -- v. 108
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9789027205759
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Case; Case grammar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of contributors; title: Introduction: the role of semantic, pragmatic; title: And discourse factors in the development of case / Jóhanna Barðdal & Shobhana L. Chelliah; title: Part 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; title: Part 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; title: Part 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; title: Part 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; title: 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; title: Part 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.