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zedat.fu-berlin.de>Gilbert Lazard Actancy 1998. 23 x 15,5 cm. XVI, 286 pages Cloth DM 218,-/approx. US$ 136.00 ISBN 3-11-015670-9 Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 19 Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York Actancy, the system of grammatical relations that obtain between the verbal predicate and the noun phrases, is at the core of the grammar of any language. This book is a typological study in the tradition of European structuralism and functionalism. All aspects of actancy, morphological and syntactic, are surveyed comparatively, with particular attention to variations within and between languages. Notions such as subject, object, accusativity, ergativity, diathesis, passive, antipassive, transitivity, etc., which are often too loosely defined in the current linguistic literature, are critically examined, given new definitions and organized into a general coherent theory. The investigation results in the construction of language invariants, conceived of as abstract sets of relationships, within which valency and actancy variations develop. Contents Foreword * INTRODUCTION * Abbreviations * Terminology * ACTANCY instruments * Relators * Actant indexes * Word order * Coalescence * Typologies * Intent markers * ACTANCY STRUCTURES * Actancy schemata * Actancy structures defined * Actancy structures and semantic relations * Other accusativity and ergativity factors * Typology of languages * ACTANTS * Semantic roles and actant functions * Criteria for defining actants * Circumstants and peripheral actants * The `Object Zone' * The subject function * Conclusion and typology * VERB CLASSES * General considerations * The major classes * Minor classes: No-actant verbs and one-actant verbs * Minor classes: Two-actant verbs * Minor classes: Three-actant verbs * Conclusion * ACTANCY VARIATIONS * The variations of actancy * Forms of variation * Functions of the variations * Concluding remarks * CORRELATIONS * General points * Invariant correlations * A model of actancy * Grammar and experience * Notes * References * Language index * Subject index * Author index _______________________________________________________________________ Mouton de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter, Inc. Postfach 30 34 21 200 Saw Mill River Road D-10728 Berlin Hawthorne, NY 10532 Germany USA Fax: +49 (0)30 26005-351 Fax: +1 914 747-1326 email: moutonMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
zedat.fu-berlin.de>Johan van der Auwera (Editor) in collaboration with Donall P. O Baoill Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe 1998. 23 x 15,5 cm. XVIII, 852 pages Cloth DM 358,-/298,-*/ 118,-** Approx. US$ 224.00/186.00*/74.00** ISBN 3-11-015746-2 Empirical Approaches to Language Typology / EUROTYP 20-3 Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York The outcome of five years of collaborative research carried out within the European Science Foundation Programme in Language Typology (EUROTYP), this volume presents the first typological study about adverbials. It focuses on eight subjects, including word level entities (phasal adverbs, adverbial quantifiers, sentence adverbs), phrasal entities (equative and similative constructions), and clausal constructions (dependent versus independent adverbial clauses, converbs, adverbial subordinators, concessive conditionals). For each subject an attempt is made to study the phenomenon for as many European languages as possible as well as for a variety sample of twenty-three languages which is kept constant across all studies. All chapters are based on a wide range of data (specifically also questionnaire data); they are as parsimonious as possible with respect to descriptive means, and they offer five types of explanations (structural, semantic, functional, genetic, areal). The general goals are twofold: (i) to formulate `Euroversals', properties holding for all European languages, which are thus also potential Universals, (ii) to check the hypothesis of the `Standard Average European' Sprachbund. The Euro-to-Universalist goal is further served by an in-depth comparison of the European languages with Chinese, Japanese, Khmer, Thai, and Vietnamese. The main general conclusion with respect to `Standard Average European' is that of the eight adverbial subjects treated in the book, five offer strong support and, moreover, allow us to make the notion of `Standard Average European' more precise than has hitherto been the case. Contents Contributors * Abbreviations * Johan van der Auwera, Introduction * Johan van der Auwera, Phasal adverbials in the languages of Europe * Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera, Adverbial quantification in the languages of Europe: theory and typology * Paolo Ramat and Davide Ricca, Sentence adverbs in the languages of Europe * Martin Haspelmath with Oda Buchholz, Equative and similative constructions in the languages of Europe * Kees Hengeveld, Adverbial clauses in the languages of Europe * Igor' V. Nedjalkov, Converbs in the languages of Europe * Bernd Kortmann, Adverbial subordinators in the languages of Europe * Martin Haspelmath and Ekkehard Koenig, Concessive conditionals in the languages of Europe * Walter Bisang, Adverbiality: The view from the Far East * Johan van der Auwera, Conclusion * Index of names * Index of languages * Index of subjects * When ordering complete EUROTYP series ** Concession for Members of ALT _______________________________________________________________________ Mouton de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter, Inc. Postfach 30 34 21 200 Saw Mill River Road D-10728 Berlin Hawthorne, NY 10532 Germany USA Fax: +49 (0)30 26005-351 Fax: +1 914 747-1326 email: moutonMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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