- Title Pages
- Notes on the contributors
- Abbreviations and glossing conventions
- 1 The study of semantic alignment: retrospect and state of the art
- 2 Semantic alignment systems: what's what, and what's not
- 3 Split intransitives, experiencer objects, and ‘transimpersonal’ constructions: (re‐)establishing the connection
- 4 Thematic roles, event structure, and argument encoding in semantically aligned languages
- 5 Why are stative‐active languages rare in Eurasia? A typological perspective on split‐subject marking
- 6 Losing semantic alignment: from Proto‐Yeniseic to Modern Ket
- 7 Intransitive split in Tundra Nenets, or how much semantics can hide behind syntactic alignment
- 8 From ergative case marking to semantic case marking: the case of historical Basque
- 9 The semantics of semantic alignment in eastern Indonesia
- 10 The rise and fall of semantic alignment in North Halmahera, Indonesia
- 11 Verb classification in Amis
- 12 The emergence of agentive systems in core argument marking
- 13 Argument dereferentialization in Lakota
- 14 The emergence of active∕stative alignment in Otomi
- 15 Voice and transitivity in Guaraní
- 16 Agreement in two Arawak languages: Baure and Kurripako
- 17 Affectedness and viewpoint in Pilagá (Guaykuruan): a semantically aligned case‐marking system
- References
- Author index
- Index of languages
- Index of terms
Why are stative‐active languages rare in Eurasia? A typological perspective on split‐subject marking
Why are stative‐active languages rare in Eurasia? A typological perspective on split‐subject marking
- Chapter:
- (p.121) 5 Why are stative‐active languages rare in Eurasia? A typological perspective on split‐subject marking
- Source:
- The Typology of Semantic Alignment
- Author(s):
Johanna Nichols
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter presents a lexical typological study of argument encoding for selected verb glosses across selected languages of Eurasia, the Pacific, and the Americas. Plotting the percentages of A- vs. O-coded Ss for the sample yields a continuum where ergative and accusative languages cluster towards opposite extremes and languages normally classified as semantically aligned fall in between.
Keywords: lexical typology, alignment, continuum, primary objects, secondary objects, oblique experiencer
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- Title Pages
- Notes on the contributors
- Abbreviations and glossing conventions
- 1 The study of semantic alignment: retrospect and state of the art
- 2 Semantic alignment systems: what's what, and what's not
- 3 Split intransitives, experiencer objects, and ‘transimpersonal’ constructions: (re‐)establishing the connection
- 4 Thematic roles, event structure, and argument encoding in semantically aligned languages
- 5 Why are stative‐active languages rare in Eurasia? A typological perspective on split‐subject marking
- 6 Losing semantic alignment: from Proto‐Yeniseic to Modern Ket
- 7 Intransitive split in Tundra Nenets, or how much semantics can hide behind syntactic alignment
- 8 From ergative case marking to semantic case marking: the case of historical Basque
- 9 The semantics of semantic alignment in eastern Indonesia
- 10 The rise and fall of semantic alignment in North Halmahera, Indonesia
- 11 Verb classification in Amis
- 12 The emergence of agentive systems in core argument marking
- 13 Argument dereferentialization in Lakota
- 14 The emergence of active∕stative alignment in Otomi
- 15 Voice and transitivity in Guaraní
- 16 Agreement in two Arawak languages: Baure and Kurripako
- 17 Affectedness and viewpoint in Pilagá (Guaykuruan): a semantically aligned case‐marking system
- References
- Author index
- Index of languages
- Index of terms
