Advances in research on semantic roles / edited by Seppo Kittil�a ; Fernando Z�u�niga.

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Intro -- Advances in Research on Semantic Roles -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Recent developments and open questions in the field of semantic roles -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Previous studies on semantic roles -- 3. Where do semantic roles originate/come from? -- 4. Different and related roles, and role subtypes -- 5. How much and what kind of information can we gather from formal marking patterns? -- 6. Final remarks and content of this volume -- Abbreviations -- References -- Identifying semantic role clusters and alignment types via microrole coexpression tendencies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three levels of semantic role granularity -- 3. From macrorole alignment to microrole coexpression -- 4. Microrole coexpression in 25 languages -- 5. Clustering roles -- 6. Mapping languages on the microrole map -- 7. Clustering languages: Alignment types -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1. The 87 verb meanings and microroles -- Appendix 2. Distribution of all language-specific coding devices, presented in 5 groupings -- Semantic role clustering -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Non-default case assignment and generalized argument classes -- 3. Data -- 4. Methods -- 5. Results -- 5.1 S and A classes of semantic roles -- 5.2 G and T classes of arguments -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Semantic roles and verbless constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous approaches to semantic roles -- 3. Data -- 4. Semantic roles and verbless constructions -- 4.1 Dynamicity without verbs -- 4.2 Events coded by verbless constructions -- 4.3 Semantic roles attested in verbless constructions -- 5. Discussion -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Benefaction proper and surrogation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies of surrogation -- 3. Benefaction proper vs. surrogation.

3.1 Benefaction proper as prototype -- 3.2 Surrogation -- 3.3 Benefaction proper vs. surrogation -- 4. Surrogative strategies -- 4.1 Spanish por and para -- 4.2 Toba -em and -ʔot -- 4.3 Bemba applicatives -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Exploring a diachronic (re)cycle of roles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background: Relational coding and punctual coding -- 3. The Dative role complex in Latin -- 4. The diachronic development of the Dative role complex in Latin -- 5. Completing the (re)cycling of the role complex: Evidence from the Romance languages -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Functive phrases in typological and diachronic perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definition and first observations -- 2.1 Definition -- 2.2 Functive and equative -- 2.3 Functive and transformative -- 2.4 Functive phrases in copulative constructions, functive arguments, and functive adjuncts -- 2.5 Functive periphrases -- 2.6 Functive phrases in the typological literature -- 2.7 The functive as a comparative concept, and questions of terminology -- 2.8 The morphosyntactic nature of functive markers -- 2.9 Functive phrases and agreement -- 2.10 Zero-marked functive phrases -- 2.11 The syntactic role of the controller of functive phrases -- 3. Functive, equative, and transformative -- 3.1 Introductory remarks -- 3.2 Markers shared by functive phrases and noun phrases in secondary predicate function expressing other types of identification -- 3.3 Functive markers and predicate marking in independent equative clauses -- 3.4 Functive-transformative syncretism -- 4. Functive and other non-participative roles -- 4.1 Functive-similative syncretism -- 4.2 Functive and comparative of superiority -- 4.3 Functive and location -- 4.4 Functive and manner -- 5. Functive and participative roles.

5.1 Functive, instrumental, and comitative -- 5.2 Functive, benefactive, and substitutive -- 5.3 Functive and lative (destination of movement) -- 5.4 Functive and separative (source of movement) -- 5.5 Others -- 6. Complex situations and their interpretation -- 7. Grammaticalization paths directly resulting in the emergence of functive markers -- 7.1 'In the quality of' > functive marker -- 7.2 Dependent form of a copulative verb > functive marker -- 8. Grammaticalization paths resulting in the emergence of similative-functive markers or functive markers with marginal similative uses -- 8.1 Deictic manner adverbs or words expressing similarity in complex constructions > similative markers > functive markers -- 8.2 'In the way / state / shape of' > similative marker > functive marker -- 8.2.1 The case of Maltese bħala -- 8.2.2 The case of Hungarian -k�ent -- 8.3 Verb 'be like' > similative marker > functive marker -- 9. Grammaticalization paths resulting in the emergence of functive markers whose polysemy pattern includes locative and/or participant roles -- 9.1 Locative > functive -- 9.2 Lative > transformative > functive -- 9.3 (Lative >) benefactive > surrogative > functive -- 9.4 Separative > functive -- 10. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Language index -- Index.

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