Main description:
This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of research into datives and other morphological cases. The contributors, among them leading scholars in the field, present fresh insights into traditional issues such as the dichotomy between lexical and structural case, and open up fascinating new areas of research. A recurrent feature of the majority of contributions is their combined syntax-semantics perspective. Germanic varieties, Serbian, Albanian and other Balkan languages alongside Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog are discussed from various theoretical angles such as mainstream generativism, lexical-functional grammar, and functional typology. Despite the broad range of facts spanning the distance between acquisition data and dialectology, the papers are connected by a renewed interest in form-function correspondencies. This volume will be welcomed by theoretical linguists and typologists with an interest in argument and event structure, linguists studying the case systems of individual languages and researchers in search for up-to-date discussion of Germanic datives.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- I INTRODUCTION
- Datives
- II FOCUS ON GERMANIC
- German inherent datives and argument structure
- Remarks on the projection of dative arguments in German
- Receiving and perceiving datives (Cipients) 2; A view from German
- The datives that aren't born equal
- The interpretation of German datives and English have
- Dative and indirect object in German dialects
- Indirect objects and Dative case in monolingual German and bilingual German/Romance language acquisition
- III BEYOND GERMANIC: FROM ALBANIAN TO TAGALOG
- Unaccusatives with dative causers and experiencers
- Putting things into perspective
- Widening the perspective
- Index
This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of research into datives and other morphological cases. The contributors, among them leading scholars in the field, present fresh insights into traditional issues such as the dichotomy between lexical and structural case, and open up fascinating new areas of research. A recurrent feature of the majority of contributions is their combined syntax-semantics perspective. Germanic varieties, Serbian, Albanian and other Balkan languages alongside Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog are discussed from various theoretical angles such as mainstream generativism, lexical-functional grammar, and functional typology. Despite the broad range of facts spanning the distance between acquisition data and dialectology, the papers are connected by a renewed interest in form-function correspondencies. This volume will be welcomed by theoretical linguists and typologists with an interest in argument and event structure, linguists studying the case systems of individual languages and researchers in search for up-to-date discussion of Germanic datives.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- I INTRODUCTION
- Datives
- II FOCUS ON GERMANIC
- German inherent datives and argument structure
- Remarks on the projection of dative arguments in German
- Receiving and perceiving datives (Cipients) 2; A view from German
- The datives that aren't born equal
- The interpretation of German datives and English have
- Dative and indirect object in German dialects
- Indirect objects and Dative case in monolingual German and bilingual German/Romance language acquisition
- III BEYOND GERMANIC: FROM ALBANIAN TO TAGALOG
- Unaccusatives with dative causers and experiencers
- Putting things into perspective
- Widening the perspective
- Index