Argument Realization in Baltic

Editors

Axel Holvoet

| University of Warsaw & Vilnius University

Nicole Nau

| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan & Vilnius University

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027259110 | EUR 110.00 | USD 165.00

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ISBN 9789027267535 | EUR 110.00 | USD 165.00

The third volume in the VARGReB series explores different aspects of varying argument realization in Baltic. It presents original studies on differential marking of both core and non-core verbal arguments, on argument structures of nouns and the encoding of nominal arguments, as well as on constructions reflecting the expansion of argument structure through the addition of causative, resultative or applicative predications. The discussion of phenomena of argument realization and marking often touches on fundamental problems of syntax and the syntax-semantics interface, such as the putative locality of case assignment, event-structural factors determining case marking, the inheritance of argument structure across phrase types, or the status of arguments and adjuncts. The contributions to this volume use different approaches and frameworks to analyze a wealth of authentic data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.

[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 3] 2016. vii, 560 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/vargreb.3

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau	1–34
Case marking and case alternations
Long-distance Genitive of Negation in Lithuanian Peter M. Arkadiev	37–82
Argument marking in Baltic and Slavonic pain-verb constructions Axel Holvoet	83–106
Variable argument realization in Lithuanian impersonals James E. Lavine	107–136
The nominative case in Baltic in a typological perspective Ilja A. Seržant	137–198
Differential Argument Marking with the Latvian debitive: A multifactorial analysis Ilja A. Seržant and Jana Taperte	199–258
Contexts for the choice of genitive vs. instrumental in contemporary Lithuanian Björn Wiemer and Vaiva Žeimantienė	259–332
The directive/locative alternation in Lithuanian and elsewhere Natalia M. Zaika	333–360
Extending argument structure
Verbal prefixation and argument structure in Lithuanian Kirill Kozhanov	363–402
Resultative secondary predicates in the Baltic languages Benita Riaubienė	403–426
On periphrastic causative constructions in Lithuanian and Latvian Jurgis Pakerys	427–458
Nominalizations and their arugument structure
Argument realization in Latvian action nominal constructions: A corpus and text based investigation Nicole Nau	461–522
Lithuanian nominalizations and the case marking of their arguments Natalia M. Zaika	523–550
Language index	551–552
Name index	553–554
Subject index	555–560

“This high-quality volume builds directly on the success of the two previous volumes and provides us with more evidence why valency, argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic merit a publication series of their own. The book offers lots of interesting actual data collected from corpora and gives the reader many fresh ideas on argument realization. The book should thus definitely be found on the bookshelf of any linguist interested in learning more about argument realization in general and in languages that have not gained that much attention in typological research thus far.”

Seppo Kittilä, University of Helsinki

Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

Balto-Slavic linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF/2AJB – Linguistics/Baltic languages

BISAC Subject: LAN009060 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2015039233 | Marc record