Case, animacy and semantic roles
by Kittilä, Seppo, Västi, Katja, Ylikoski, Jussi
fromTypological studies in language
Case, animacy and semantic roles
by Kittilä, Seppo, Västi, Katja, Ylikoski, Jussi
fromTypological studies in language
"The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike pre…
Case, animacy and semantic roles
by Kittilä, Seppo, Västi, Katja, Ylikoski, Jussi
fromTypological studies in language
The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike prev…
In this paper we claim that the emergence of the existential pro-form in early Italo-Romance is motivated by the overt marking of definiteness on the pivot. The available data from a relatively large corpus of early Italo-Romance texts dating from C13th to C16th suggest that the…