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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 262 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x14 mm, kaal: 360 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Sari: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2014
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107627370
  • ISBN-13: 9781107627376
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 262 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x14 mm, kaal: 360 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Sari: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2014
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107627370
  • ISBN-13: 9781107627376
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In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how object marking is affected by information structure, the grammatical structuring of the utterance in accordance with context.

In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how differential object marking is affected by information structure, the structuring of the utterance in accordance with the informational value of its elements and contextual factors. Marked objects tend to be associated with old information or information that the sentence is about, while unmarked objects tend to express new information. The book also sheds light on grammatical patterning in languages with differential object marking: in some languages marked and unmarked objects have identical grammatical properties, whereas in other languages marked objects are more active in syntax. Finally, it provides a theory of the historical changes that lead to the emergence of various patterns of differential object marking.

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A cross-linguistic study of how objects are affected by information structure.
Preface and Acknowledgements 11(2)
List of Abbreviations
13
1 Introduction
1(21)
1.1 The phenomenon
1(1)
1.2 Previous work
2(9)
1.2.1 Marking as distinguishing arguments
2(3)
1.2.2 Marking as coding features
5(3)
1.2.3 DOM in transformational syntax
8(3)
1.3 Criteria for marking
11(2)
1.4 Our proposal
13(7)
1.4.1 Information structure
14(3)
1.4.2 Syntax
17(1)
1.4.3 Diachrony and grammaticalisation
18(1)
1.4.4 Limits of our analysis
19(1)
1.5 Structure of the book
20(2)
2 Syntactic assumptions
22(23)
2.1 Grammatical functions
22(4)
2.1.1 Grammatical function diagnostics
23(2)
2.1.2 Grammatical functions and semantic roles
25(1)
2.2 Objects
26(2)
2.3 Levels of syntactic representation
28(4)
2.4 Describing linguistic structures
32(2)
2.5 Grammatical agreement
34(2)
2.6 Agreement and pronominal incorporation
36(3)
2.7 Casemarking
39(2)
2.8 Nonsyntactic critera for casemarking patterns
41(3)
2.9 Conclusion
44(1)
3 Information structure in grammar
45(13)
3.1 The content of information structure
45(2)
3.2 Information-structure roles
47(10)
3.2.1 Focus
47(1)
3.2.2 Topic
48(2)
3.2.3 Topicality and topic-worthiness
50(3)
3.2.4 Secondary topic
53(4)
3.3 Conclusion
57(1)
4 Syntax and information structure
58(36)
4.1 Alternative views of information structure
58(7)
4.1.1 Tree-based representations
58(3)
4.1.2 Early work in LFG
61(4)
4.2 Information structure and its role in grammar
65(6)
4.2.1 Content of information structure: The LFG view
65(2)
4.2.2 Linguistic encoding of information structure relations
67(1)
4.2.3 Information structure in relation to semantics
68(3)
4.3 Our architecture
71(22)
4.3.1 Glue and the syntax-semantics interface
71(4)
4.3.2 Information structure features and relations
75(3)
4.3.3 Levels and equations
78(8)
4.3.4 A short text
86(4)
4.3.5 Information structure and its place in grammar
90(3)
4.4 Conclusion
93(1)
5 Topicality and grammatical marking
94(13)
5.1 Topical marking for different grammatical functions
94(5)
5.2 Grammatical encoding of topical subjects
99(3)
5.3 Subjects and topichood
102(4)
5.4 Conclusion
106(1)
6 Topical marking of nonsubjects
107(18)
6.1 Casemarking of topical nonsubjects
107(9)
6.1.1 Persian
107(6)
6.1.2 Tariana
113(2)
6.1.3 Topical nonsubject casemarking
115(1)
6.2 Agreement with topical nonsubjects
116(8)
6.2.1 Itelmen
116(4)
6.2.2 Tabassaran
120(2)
6.2.3 Topical nonsubject agreement
122(2)
6.3 Conclusion
124(1)
7 Topicality and DOM
125(15)
7.1 Objects as grammaticalised secondary topics
125(2)
7.2 "Agreement with topical objects: Tundra Nenets
127(5)
7.3 Casemarking of topical objects
132(7)
7.3.1 Tigre
133(4)
7.3.2 Dolakha Newar
137(2)
7.4 Conclusion
139(1)
8 Primary and secondary objecthood and DOM
140(29)
8.1 Grammatical marking and grammatical function
140(2)
8.2 Object agreement and grammatical function: Ostyak
142(8)
8.3 Object casemarking and grammatical function
150(14)
8.3.1 Mongolian
150(5)
8.3.2 Chatino
155(4)
8.3.3 Hindi
159(5)
8.4 Objects and markedness
164(3)
8.5 Conclusion
167(2)
9 Multiple objects and grammatical alignment
169(25)
9.1 On the typology of multitransitive constructions
169(3)
9.2 No ditransitive construction
172(5)
9.2.1 Nenets
172(1)
9.2.2 Ostyak
173(2)
9.2.3 Mongolian
175(2)
9.3 Ditransitive constructions
177(3)
9.3.1 Chatino
177(2)
9.3.2 Hindi
179(1)
9.4 Other multitransitive constructions
180(11)
9.4.1 Dolakha Newar
181(4)
9.4.2 Tigre
185(1)
9.4.3 Applicatives: Upper Necaxa Totonac
186(5)
9.5 Topicality and goals
191(2)
9.6 Conclusion
193(1)
10 Semantic features, topicality and grammaticalisation
194(25)
10.1 Case studies
194(13)
10.1.1 Uralic
194(7)
10.1.2 Persian and the Iranian languages
201(2)
10.1.3 Hindi and the Indo-Aryan languages
203(4)
10.2 Paths of grammaticalisation
207(8)
10.2.1 Spreading of DOM
208(3)
10.2.2 Narrowing of DOM
211(4)
10.3 Towards a typology
215(2)
10.4 Conclusion
217(2)
11 Conclusion
219(4)
References 223(17)
Author Index 240(3)
Language Index 243(2)
Subject Index 245
Mary Dalrymple is Professor of Syntax in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford. Irina Nikolaeva is a Lecturer in Endangered Languages in the Department of Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.