A comparative handbook, along with other publications, is yet another confirmation of the leading position of the linguistic department based at the max planck institute of evolutionary anthropology in leipzig in the vibrant field of typological research. Prices in gbp apply to orders placed in great britain only. Person agreement and the determination of alignment. Ditransitive constructions in a crosslinguistic perspective.
The chapter shows substantial divergences between ugandan english and standard britishamerican english in the use of ditransitive constructions. Ive poured you some tea and ive poured some tea for you respectively are widespread in standard britishamerican english, the. Studies in ditransitive constructions by andrej malchukov, 9783111732879, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The oxford handbook of case provides a comprehensive account of research on case and the morphological and syntactic phenomena associated with it. In english, make, name, appoint, consider, turn into and others are examples. The volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium on areal patterns of grammaticalization and crosslinguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios held on 1214 march 2015 at johannes gutenberg university of mainz. The constructions to be compared because on the one hand this collection of papers is concerned with referential factors and on the other hand a person hierarchy 12 3 is active in monotransitive constructions cf. Comparing categories and constructions crosslinguistically again. Daniel, michael khalilova, zaira molochieva, zarina. Ll influence on esl learners acquisition of english. For example, while a benefactive double object construction and its equivalent prepositional phrase construction, e. The papers, written by leading scholars combining expertise in historical linguistics and grammaticalization research, study variation in. Edited by malchukov, andrej haspelmath, martin comrie, bernard. Sorry, we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following locations.
The present volume, consisting of an overview article and twentyodd indepth studies of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from different continents, arose from the conference on ditransitive constructions held at the max planck institute for evolutionary anthropology leipzig in 2007. Martin haspelmath list of publications to appear 2010. In a monoclausal comparative construction, the parameter which is modified by the index of comparison may be copula complement, head of an. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Pdf ditransitive constructions in surgut khanty nikolett. Alignment alternations in some languages the choice of alignment is determined by the relative ranking of r and.
It is probably true that cases which are restricted to one specific meaning are rarer than cases subsuming several meanings. This rich volume deals comprehensively with crosslinguistic variation in the morphosyntax of ditransitive constructions. Studies in natural language and linguistic theory, 76. Lester uc santa barbara this paper pursues a cognitivefunctional explanation for the doubleobject ditransitive construction in. Integrating headmarking and dependentmarking properties. The morphosyntactic variation of the ditransitive argument.
Modern greek o petros estile tis marias ta xrimata. A typology of comparative constructions is presented, with major attention to the prototypical scheme in which two participants are compared in terms of the degree of some gradable property associated with them as in john is more handsome than felix. Dong han lee 1997, for example, draws on the markedness theory in his. Ditransitive constructions are syntactic constructions with three arguments, an agent a, a theme t, and a recipient r, which express an event of possessive transfer give, lend, etc. The semantic roles and grammatical relations indicated by case are fundamental to the whole system of language and have long been a central concern of descriptive and theoretical linguistics. The origins of these polysemies or syncretisms vary. In english, make, name, appoint, consider, turn into. An rrg analysis of halkomelem ditransitive constructions valeria generalova heinrich heine university of dusseldorf halkomelem is a salish language which is subject to various typological studies. A semantic map is a method of capturing and accounting for regular. On s, a, p, t, and r as comparative concepts for alignment typology.
More importantly, the two studies on ditransitive constructions reveal methodological limits. The double object construction in inuktitut julien carrier. My interest in contrastive studies in construction grammar was initially sparked in 1999, when i wrote my dissertation on resultative constructions in english and german. Since the publication of goldbergs 1995 seminal book constructions, construction grammar cxg has become increasingly popular and inspired analyses of a wide range of grammatical.
In goldbergs construction grammar approach the ditransitive or dative alternation in. It is claimed to be headmarking, however, its index of markedness according to nichols 1986 is. The double object construction in inuktitut abstract. Grammatical properties and classification of three. Another category of ditransitive verb is the attributive ditransitive verb in which the two objects are semantically an entity and a quality, a source and a result, etc.
Studies in ditransitive constructions a comparative handbook. One of the findings of my dissertation and its revised version a constructional account to resultatives, csli publications, 2003 was that verbs often exhibit quite different. This wonderfully complex handbook examines crosslinguistic differences in ditransitive constructions. In joola banjal, coding properties show that the two objects of ditransitive constructions theme and recipient are treated like the monotransitive patient that is a neutral alignment. It is claimed to be headmarking, however, its index of markedness according to nichols 1986 is 2 while pro. Argument cohort accessibility affords cognitive containment john w. This typological work culminated in the publication of a comparative handbook of ditransitive constructions malchukov, haspelmath. Reviewed by elly van gelderen, arizona state university. Secondlanguage l2 sentence processing may differ from processing in a native language in a variety of ways, and it has been argued that one major difference is that l2 learners can only construct shallow representations that lack structural details e. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author, isbn or anything else. Ditransitive constructions in southern selkup i the theme is almost always encoded with the accusative case the recipient is encoded with the dativeallative case, if it is expressed by a noun the recipient is encoded with the dative case, if it is expressed by a pronoun ditransitive constructions occur almost always only. Zalerts allow you to be notified by email about the availability of new books according to your search query. Thus, the volume studies in ditransitive constructions. The use of ditransitive constructions in ugandan english.
Referential and lexical factors in alignment variation of trivalent. Animacy and asymmetries in differential case marking. Fedden, s 2010 studies in ditransitive constructions in. Pdf ditransitive constructions in the worlds languages. Recent studies on alignment typology recognize three major ditransitive alignment types. Typical ditransitive constructions are shown in 1ac. Andrej malchukov, lecture 21, ealing 2012, paris, september 11, 2012 2 2. Studies in ditransitive constructions surrey research.
The present volume, consisting of an overview article and twentyodd in depth studies of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from different continents, arose from the conference on ditransitive constructions held at the max planck institute for evolutionary anthropology leipzig in 2007. We use cookies to offer you a better experience, personalize content, tailor advertising, provide social media features, and better understand the use of our services. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Unity and diversity in grammaticalization scenarios. In a monoclausal comparative construction, the parameter which is modified by the index of comparison may be copula. A ditransitive construction is defined here as a construction consisting of a ditransitive verb, an agent argument a, a recipientlike argument r, and a theme argument t. International workshop on the diachrony of ditransitives. Studies in ditransitive constructions by andrej malchukov. In malchukov andrej, haspelmath martin and comrie bernard eds. Questionnaire on ditransitive constructions preliminaries i ditransitive construction is defined semantically as a construction with a recipient r and a theme t argument, where these semantic role labels are understood broadly. A comparative handbook andrej malchukov, martin haspelmath, bernard comrie this rich volume explores the crosslinguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, syntactic patterns of givelike verbs taking agent, theme and recipient arguments. Clause structure is the most widelystudied phenomenon within syntactic theory, because it refers to how words and phrases are embedded within a sentence, their relationships to each other within a sentence, and ultimately, how sentences are layered and represented in the human brain.
It also provides a general framework for the typology of ditransitive constructions, including two general chapters, six on the languages of africa, seven on those of eurasia, four on the languages of new guinea and australia, and seven. The morphosyntactic variation of the ditransitive argument structure construction in presentday german in goldbergs construction grammar approach the ditransitive or dative alternation in english is analyzed in terms of two argument structure constructions. The double object construction in inuktitut julien carrier university of toronto abstract in inuktitut, there is an alternation very similar to the one found in english between a prepositional ditransitive construction pdc, like i gave the money to peter, and a double object construction doc, like i gave peter money. The effects of referential factors in mojeno trinitario. Malchukov lexical splits in ditransitive constructions this talk based on a joint work with martin haspelmath and bernard comrie. Their crosslinguistic study has revealed three major alignment types. Prices in represent the retail prices valid in germany unless otherwise indicated.