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Argument Structure in Flux Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS) This series has been established as a companion series to the periodical Studies in Language. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs Editors Werner Abraham Elly van Gelderen University of Vienna / Arizona State University University of Munich Editorial Board Bernard Comrie Christian Lehmann Max Planck Institute, Leipzig University of Erfurt and University of California, Santa Barbara Marianne Mithun William Croft University of California, Santa Barbara University of New Mexico Heiko Narrog Östen Dahl Tohuku University University of Stockholm Johanna L. Wood Gerrit J. Dimmendaal University of Aarhus University of Cologne Debra Ziegeler Ekkehard König University of Paris III Free University of Berlin Volume 131 Argument Structure in Flux. The Naples-Capri Papers Edited by Elly van Gelderen, Michela Cennamo and Jóhanna Barðdal Argument Structure in Flux The Naples-Capri Papers Edited by Elly van Gelderen Arizona State University Michela Cennamo University of Naples Federico II Jóhanna Barðdal University of Bergen John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Argument Structure in Flux : the Naples-Capri Papers / Edited by Elly Van Gelderen, Michela Cennamo, Jóhanna Barðdal. p. cm. (Studies in Language Companion Series, issn 0165-7763 ; v. 131) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Grammar, Comparative and general--Ergative constructions. 2. Grammar, Comparative and general--Case 3. Grammar, Comparative and general-- Syntax. 4. Generative grammar. I. Gelderen, Elly van, editor of compilation. II. Cennamo, Michela, editor of compilation. III. Jóhanna Barðdal, 1969- editor of compilation. P291.5.A76 2013 415--dc23 2012047024 isbn 978 90 272 0598 8 (Hb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 7228 7 (Eb) © 2013 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa In memory of our friend, Anna Siewierska Table of contents Argument structure in flux 1 Jóhanna Barðdal & Michela Cennamo part i. Argument structure and encoding strategies Non-canonical subjects in clauses with noun predicates 15 Marina Benedetti Differential agent marking in Hinuq 33 Diana Forker Case variation and case alternation in Indo-European and beyond: A diachronic typological perspective 53 Leonid Kulikov Constructional polysemy and argument realisation with the Irish GET verb 87 Brian Nolan part ii. Argument structure and verb classes Latin preverbs and verb argument structure: New insights from new methods 119 Barbara McGillivray Experiencing linking: Psych verbs at the interface 135 Marijana Marelj Introduce: Encoding a non-prototypical three-participant event across Europe 169 Anna Siewierska & Eva Van Lier On the relationship between lexical aspect, verbal meaning, and (lexical) argument structure 201 Gretel De Cuyper Four Romanian verbs of occurring: The effect of argument structure on verb meaning and use 231 Daniela Caluianu part iii. Unexpressed arguments The pro cycle 257 Jan Terje Faarlund iii Argument Structure in Flux Argument promotion and SE-constructions in Brazilian Portuguese 285 Sonia Cyrino Unaccusativity and the diachrony of null and cognate objects in Greek 307 Nikolaos Lavidas part i. Split intransitivity Split intransitivity in Irish and the syntax-semantics interface 345 Aidan Doyle Semantic constraints on the Latin impersonal passive: On telicity and agentivity 373 Maria Napoli Auxiliary selection in German: Constructional gradience with perfect formation 405 Elke Diedrichsen Tornar and volver: The interplay of frequency and semantics in compound tense auxiliary selection in Medieval and Classical Spanish 435 Malte Rosemeyer part . Existential and presentational constructions Control and the evolution of possessive and existential constructions 461 Denis Creissels Existential constructions: A semasiological perspective 477 Livio Gaeta Variation and change in the presentational constructions of north-western Italo-Romance varieties 511 Mair Parry Argument realization and existential pro-forms in early Italo-Romance 549 Francesco Maria Ciconte Author index 567 Language and topic index 573 Argument structure in flux Jóhanna Barðdal & Michela Cennamo University of Bergen / University of Naples Federico II This volume originates in papers given at the conference “Variation and Change in Argument Realization”, held in Naples and Capri from May 28th to June 2nd, 2010. The aim of the conference was to explore factors determining the coding and r epresentation of argument structure from a diachronic and variational perspective (cf. Barðdal & Chelliah 2009; Cennamo 2009), in particular the complex interplay of semantic, syntactic and pragmatic factors that determine argument realization within and across languages (cf. Cennamo 2003; Levin & Rappaport Hovav 2005; Kulikov, M alchukov & de Swart 2006; Bentley 2006; Goldberg 2006; Barðdal 2006, 2008; R amchand 2008; Malchukov & Spencer 2009; de Hoop & de Swart 2009; von H eusinger & de Hoop 2011; Van Valin 2013, among others). The consensus view emerging from a large body of synchronic research acknowl- edges the key roles played by event-based notions such as aspect, e.g. telicity, verbal semantics, e.g. control and lack thereof, as well as inherent features of argument fillers, like animacy and definiteness, in determining the mapping from the lexical semantic to the morphosyntactic planes (cf. Donohue & Barðdal 2011). The existence of non- event based aspects in the encoding of arguments has also prompted current inves- tigations of the contribution of the idiosyncratic, the root, and structural facets, the event-structure templates, and their effects on the meaning of verbs for argument real- ization, and the principles governing their integration (Rappaport Hovav 2008). Our aim with the conference, therefore, was to bring together different strands of research on event and argument structure. Argument realization and event structure lie at the heart of all current theoretical models in linguistics, both syntactic models and research within typology. In spite of that, historical research on these issues is at the minimum. Our aim with the conference was therefore to provide a platform focusing on the applicability of current theoretical and methodological models on the concepts of event and argument structure. Our aim was, in particular, to stimulate and further contribute to research on these models’ abil- ity to describe and explain actual diachronic changes and variational data from different domains, such as auxiliary selection, argument marking and linking, grammatical rela- tions, ditransitive constructions, possessive constructions, existential/p resentational constructions, intransitive alternations, voice alternations, etc.
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