Case Marking
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Surveying the encoding of the semantic roles of recipient, beneficiary, and recipient-beneficiary from a crosslinguistic perspective, the paper has two goals. First, by focusing on the encoding of the dual role of recipient-beneficiary,... more
Finnish existential clauses are known for the case marking of their S arguments, which alternates between the nominative and the partitive. Existential S arguments introduce a discourse-new referent, and, if headed by a mass noun or a... more
This paper examines the explanatory value of the transitivity scale of two-place predicates proposed by Tsunoda (1981, 1985, 1991) as applied to the ease or difficulty of the acquisition of the Japanese object case particle wo by Hindi... more
Wakhi (ISO: wbl) is a Pamir language of the Southeastern Indo-Iranian family that exhibits a rich case inventory. Although previous descriptions of the Wakhi case system posit a case inventory of up to six cases, this thesis proposes an... more
This paper revises the Standard Average European feature "Nominative experiencers" proposed by Haspelmath in 1998 and 2001. 22 non-SAE languages were examined, 19 of them show predominantily "nominative experiencer". The paper also... more
Une proposition d'une grille d'évaluation - notation pour l'épreuve à l'écrit de Tourisme & Territoire du BTS TOURISME. Essai.
Marking course
Marking course
Volumen editado en donde se examina la complejidad morfo-fonológica, sintáctica, semántica y funcional de elementos adposicionales en quince lenguas habladas en América: maká (mataguaya), chorote/manjui (chaco), lenguas de la familia je... more
A HO of an invited talk at the MPI EVA in November, 2014.
An updated version of November, 2016.
An updated version of November, 2016.
This paper surveys the origins of the total of twenty-seven directional case markers in the European branches of the Uralic language family. In an attempt to resolve a number of mismatches between the traditional tenets of historical... more
This paper describes a number of selectors for grammatical relations in Yaqui. The main selectors discussed in the paper include case marking, word order, suppletion, passive and valency-increasing mechanisms, control and ana-phoric... more
"This dissertation is about the elements that build verbs, the elements that introduce arguments, and how these elements interact to determine the interpretation of arguments and events. A theory of argument structure is a theory how... more
This thesis examines the distinction between syntactic case and semantic case, part of a broader distinction between lexical and functional elements. Several tests, involving predication, nominalization, and iteration are proposed for... more
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Georgica 37: 35-51
Georgica 37: 35-51
Die Studie befasst sich mit dem Instrumental des Ortes und dem Instrumental der Zeit als zwei Verwendungsmustern des „reinen“, präpositionslosen Kasus in einem Funktionsbereich, der durch präpositionale Relationsmarker dominiert wird. Im... more
Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Burmese is usually analysed as directly related to the expression of information structure. Yet, this corpus-based study of DOM and the associated prosody finds that DOM is not based on information... more
Liangmai shows semantically/pragmatically motivated case marking. The paper discusses the individual case morphemes with their semantic and grammatical roles.
A draft of the review on: Barbara Sonnenhauser & Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna (eds.). 2013. Vocative! Addressing between system and performance. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 323
In this paper we describe a peculiar pattern of case alternation from the polysynthetic Circassian (West Caucasian) languages, where specificity-driven differential marking of noun phrases is attested in all syntactic positions and with... more
This paper describes non-standard case-marking patterns attested in the non-finite clauses headed by participles and infinitive in Lithuanian. Lithuanian data is compared with that of the languages of the same geographical area, as well... more
Die Studie befasst sich mit dem Instrumental des Ortes und dem Instrumental der Zeit als zwei Verwendungsmustern des „reinen“, präpositionslosen Kasus in einem Funktionsbereich, der durch präpositionale Relationsmarker dominiert wird. Im... more
This paper investigates the phenomenon of the substitution of the accusative case marking of the direct object of a transitive infinitive (or, rarely, participle) by the genitive when the non-finite clause is embedded under a negated... more
La interpretación de la función semántica de los argumentos es un tema que ha estado presente desde los inicios de la Gramática Generativa, con trabajos tan influyentes como Gruber (1965). Posteriormente, ya en el modelo GB, se intentó... more
This paper analyses the differential object marking in the Finnic languages. The first part of the article describes the main principles of the Finnic DOM that is based on the superposition of two contrasts. The main contrast is the... more
Article for WSK Linguistic Typology (De Gruyter) (2016)
This paper deals with the Udmurt, Komi-Zyryan and Meadow Mari non-finite clauses headed by the suffix-m. These non-finite clauses can be used in relative, adjunct and argument position in the matrix clause. According to previous studies,... more
The Animacy Hierarchy (AH) is one of the most important generalizations in linguistic typology employed for the description and explanation of variations and splits in case marking and agreement in various grammatical domains. The AH is a... more