Draye L (1 results)

RARE volume devoted to the central cases relating to the basic oppositions between subject-object and agent-patient (nominative and accusative), as well as their counterparts such as ergative and absolutive, providing descriptive studies of ten different languages, not only Romance and Germanic languages, but also Polish and Basque, as well as Cora, Warrwa and Ewe. [Contents]: 1. Introduction - Kristin Davidse and Béatrice Lamiroy. 2. Romance transitivity - Michael Herslund. 3. Objects and quasi-objects: The constellation of the object in French - Ludo Melis. 4. A construction grammar approach to transitivity in Spanish - Nicole Delbecque. 5. Nominative and oblique in English: reflexive clauses as a test for distinct Agent-Patient models - Kristin Davidse. 6. Aspects of nominative and accusative in German - Luk Draye. 7. The Source-Path-Goal schema and the accusative in interaction with the genitive in Polish - Zofia Kaleta. 8. Objects, verbs and categories in the Cora lexicon - Eugene Casad. 9. Ergativity and accusativity in Basque - Larry Trask. 10. Ergative and accusative patterning in Warrwa. 11. Constituent order and grammatical relations in Ewe - Felix Ameka. 225x155mm. X+363 pages. In as new condition. The book is in : English.