Argument marking in Baltic and Slavonic pain-verb constructions

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knygos dalis / Part of the book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Argument marking in Baltic and Slavonic pain-verb constructions
Authors:
Holvoet, Axel
In the Book:
Argument realization in Baltic / edited by Axel Holvoet, Nicole Nau. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. P. 83-106. (Valency, argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic ; 3)
Keywords:
LT
Kalbos dalys. Morfologija / Morphology.
Summary / Abstract:

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Veiksmažodis; Konstrukcijos; Žymėjimas; Argumentas; Verb; Constructions; Argument; Marking.

ENPain verbs are often mentioned in publications on non-canonical marking of grammatical relations. In this article I look at the specific features of pain-verb construction that induce such non-canonical behaviour. Various types of non-canonicity result from marking strategies such as the external-possessor construction or the ‘agent-demoting construction’ undergoing construction-specific modifications which often make it difficult to treat pain-verb constructions as routine applications of productive patterns functioning elsewhere in a language. The non-canonical behaviour of pain-verb constructions results from a specific low-transitivity configuration of experiencer and stimulus arguments standing in a whole-to-part relationship and arranged in a prominence (obliqueness) cline often disturbing the patterns of grammatical relations inherited from the source constructions. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.1075/vargreb.3.02hol
ISBN:
9789027259110
ISSN:
9789027267535
Subject:
Kalbotyra / Linguistics
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2022-01-07 21:26:51
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