Argument marking and grammatical relations in Baltic

Holvoet, Axel; Nau, Nicole

doi:10.1075/vargreb.1.01hol

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The constructionalization and constructional change of noncanonical V-NP expressions in Mandarin Chinese

2018

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This paper investigates the process of constructionalization and constructional change of apparently noncanonical yet highly frequent V-NP expressions in Mandarin Chinese, which exist in other languages as well (e.g., Southeast Asian languages and African languages). A corpus-based survey of 20 frequently used monosyllabic verbs shows that both the token and the type frequency of the noncanonical V-NP expressions have on the whole been increasing throughout the history of the Chinese language. From a constructional perspective, it is proposed that the noncanonical V-NP structure has gone through a process of grammatical constructionalization and constructional change (Traugott & Trousdale 2013), which involves diachronic changes in productivity, schematicity and compositionality and which is manifested in the increasing number of the semantic types of postverbal NPs.

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The constructionalization and constructional change of noncanonical V-NP expressions in Mandarin Chinese

2018

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Complex verbs in Bohairic Coptic

Zakrzewska¹

2017

Studies in Language Companion Series

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This chapter discusses second argument markers in Bohairic Coptic complex verbs constructed with the light verbs er‑ ‘do, make’ and ti- ‘give’ and typically used to integrate verbal borrowings from Greek. The question is examined if Coptic argument marking can be considered a replica of Greek valency patterns. Enhancement of already existing marking strategies seems more plausible, however, whereby the rise of complex verbs has contributed to a radical restructuring of the transitivity system in Coptic. Two competing subsystems of transitivity are distinguished: a recessive one characterized by head marking and emphasis on the discriminating function of case and a productive one in which the characterizing function of case becomes prominent thanks to dependent marking by means of a preposition.

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Voice in Baltic

Nau

Holvoet

2015

Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic

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Argument marking and grammatical relations in Baltic

Cited by 10 publications

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The constructionalization and constructional change of noncanonical V-NP expressions in Mandarin Chinese

The constructionalization and constructional change of noncanonical V-NP expressions in Mandarin Chinese

Complex verbs in Bohairic Coptic

Voice in Baltic

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