Full Description
This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of the argument realisation of the concepts of causative purpose, permit, let/allow and transfer in a broad cross-linguistic typologically diverse mix of languages with GIVE, GET, TAKE, PUT, and LET verbs. This volume stands as the first systematic exploration of these verbs and concepts as they occur in complex events and clauses. This book brings together scholars and researchers from a variety of functionally inspired theoretical backgrounds that have worked on these verbs within one language or from a cross-linguistic perspective. The objective is to understand the linguistic behaviour of the verbs and their inter-relationships within a contemporary cognitive-functional linguistic perspective. The languages represented include Irish, German, Slavic (West Slavic: Polish, Czech, Slovak and Sorbian and Western South Slavic: Slovenian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian), Germanic, Romance, Gan Chinese Yichun dialect, Māori, Bohairic Coptic, Shaowu Chinese, Hebrew, English, Lithuanian, Estonian, the Australian dialects Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, Italian, and Persian. Topics discussed include argument structure and the encoding of arguments under causation, permission and transferverbs, their lexical semantics and event structure.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Nolan, Brian); 2. Encoding transfer, let/allow and permission in Modern Irish: Interaction of causation, event chaining, argument realisation and syntactic variation (by Nolan, Brian); 3. Degrees of causivity in German lassen causitive constructions (by Diederichsen, Elke); 4. Grammaticalization of 'give' in Slavic between drift and contact: Causative, modal, imperative, existential, optative and volative constructions (by Waldenfels, Ruprecht von); 5. 'Give' and semantic maps (by Collins, Jeremy); 6. How Europeans GIVE: A two-layered semantic typology based on two parallel corpora (by Levshina, Natalia); 7. Ditransitive constructions in Gan Chinese: A case study of the Yichun dialect (by Li, XuPing); 8. The argument realisation of give and take verbs in Maori (by Finn, Aoife); 9. GIVE an its arguments in Bohairic Coptic (by Zakrewska, Ewa D.); 10. Giving is receiving: The polysemy of the GET/GIVE verb [tie53] in Shaowu (by Ngai, Sing Sing); 11. Enabling and allowing in Hebrew: A usage-based construction grammar account (by Dattner, Elitzur); 12. Low-level patterning of pronominal subjects and verb tenses in English (by Newman, John); 13. The morphological, syntactic and semantic interface of the verb GIVE in Lithuanian (by Bruno, Jone); 14. Rise and fall of the TAKE-future in written Estonian (by Tragel, Ilona); 15. Causation in the Australian dialects Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara (by Pyle, Conor); 16. The fare causative derivation in Italian: A review (by Frenda, Alessio S.); 17. Information-structural encoding of recipient in non-canonical alignments of Persian: A constructional account (by Moezzipour, Farhad); 18. Index
