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The Typology of Semantic Alignment
Mark Donohue and Søren Wichmann
482 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-923838-5
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Hardback
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24 January 2008
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- First book on the subject for thirty years
- Current focus of interest in typology and historial linguistics
- Written by leading scholars from around the world
- Wide range of reference to Asian, American, and Pacific languages
Semantic alignment refers to a type of language that has two means of morphosyntactically encoding the arguments of intransitive predicates, typically treating these as an agent or as a patient of a transitive predicate, or else by a means of a treatment that varies according to lexical aspect. This collection of new typological and case studies is the first book-length investigation of semantically aligned languages for three decades. Leading international typologists explore the differences and commonalities of languages with semantic alignment systems and compare the structure of these languages to languages without them. They look at how such
systems arise or disappear and provide areal overviews of Eurasia, the Americas, and the south-west Pacific, the areas where semantically aligned languages are concentrated. This book will interest typological and historical linguists at graduate level and above.Readership: Scholars and graduate-level students interested in linguistic typology, morphology, argument structure, unaccusativity, North American languages, Indonesian languages, Eurasian languages, historical syntax, language change, and lexical semantics in deparments of linguistics, anthropology, and related disciplines.
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Mark Donohue, Monash University, and Søren Wichmann, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Contributors:
Mark Donohue, Monash University
Søren Wichmann, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Gontzal Aldai, University of the Basque Country
Peter Arkadiev, Russia
Swintha Danielsen, Germany
Tania Granadillo, USA
Gary Holton, Indonesia
Olesya Khanina, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Marian Klamer, Leiden University
Andrej Malchukov, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig
Marianne Mithun, USA
Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley
Enrique L. Palancar, Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro
Regina Pustet, Germany
David Rood, University of Colorado
Naomi Tsukida, Japan
Edward J. Vajda, Western Washington University
Maura Valázquez-Castillo, Colorado State University
Alejandra Vidal, Argentina
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Part I Introductory and General
1: Søren Wichmann: The Study of Semantic Alignment: retrospect and state of the art
2: Mark Donohue: Semantic Alignment Systems: what's what and what's not
3: Andrej Malchukov: Split Intransitives, Experiencer Objects, and 'Transimpersonal' Constructions: (re-)establishing the connection
4: Peter Arkadiev: Thematic Roles, Event Structure, and Argument Encoding in Semantically Aligned Languages
Part II Eurasia
5: Johanna Nichols: Why are Stative-Active Languages Rare in Eurasia? Typological Perspective on Split Subject Marking
6: Edward J. Vajda: Losing Semantic Alignment: From Proto-Yeniseic to Modern Ket
7: Olesya Khanina: Intransitive Split in Tundra Nenets, or How Much Semantics Can Hide Behind Syntactic Alignment
8: Gontzal Aldai: From Ergative Case-Marking to Semantic Case-Marking: the case of historical Basque
Part III The Pacific
9: Marian Klamer: The Semantics of Semantic Alignment in Eastern Indonesia: Forms, Semantics, Geography, Possible Diffusion
10: Gary Holton: The Emergence of Stative-Active Systems in North Halmahera, Indonesia
11: Naomi Tsukida: Verb Classification in Amis
Part IV The Americas
12: Marianne Mithun: The Emergence of Agentive Patient Systems in Core Argument Marking
13: Regina Pustet and David Rood: Argument Dereferentialization in Lakhota
14: Enrique L. Palancar: The Emergence of the Active/Stative Alignment in Otomi
15: Maura Valázquez-Castillo: Voice and Transitivity in Guaraní
16: Swintha Danielsen and Tania Granadillo: Agreement in Two Arawak Languages: Baure and Kurripako
17: Alejandra Vidal: Semantic Motivations of Pilagá Subject-Marking
References
Index of Languages
Index of Terms
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