Part I Introductory and General
1: Søren Wichmann: The Study of Semantic Alignment: retrospect and
state of the art
2: Mark Donohue: Semantic Alignment Systems: what's what and what's
not
3: Andrej Malchukov: Split Intransitives, Experiencer Objects, and
'Transimpersonal' Constructions: (re-)establishing the
connection
4: Peter Arkadiev: Thematic Roles, Event Structure, and Argument
Encoding in Semantically Aligned Languages
Part II Eurasia
5: Johanna Nichols: Why are Stative-Active Languages Rare in
Eurasia? Typological Perspective on Split Subject Marking
6: Edward J. Vajda: Losing Semantic Alignment: From Proto-Yeniseic
to Modern Ket
7: Olesya Khanina: Intransitive Split in Tundra Nenets, or How Much
Semantics Can Hide Behind Syntactic Alignment
8: Gontzal Aldai: From Ergative Case-Marking to Semantic
Case-Marking: the case of historical Basque
Part III The Pacific
9: Marian Klamer: The Semantics of Semantic Alignment in Eastern
Indonesia: Forms, Semantics, Geography, Possible Diffusion
10: Gary Holton: The Emergence of Stative-Active Systems in North
Halmahera, Indonesia
11: Naomi Tsukida: Verb Classification in Amis
Part IV The Americas
12: Marianne Mithun: The Emergence of Agentive Patient Systems in
Core Argument Marking
13: Regina Pustet and David Rood: Argument Dereferentialization in
Lakhota
14: Enrique L. Palancar: The Emergence of the Active/Stative
Alignment in Otomi
15: Maura Valázquez-Castillo: Voice and Transitivity in Guaraní
16: Swintha Danielsen and Tania Granadillo: Agreement in Two Arawak
Languages: Baure and Kurripako
17: Alejandra Vidal: Semantic Motivations of Pilagá
Subject-Marking
References
Index of Languages
Index of Terms
Mark Donohue is a Professor at Monash University, in Melbourne. His
published work includes articles in Language, Studies in Language,
Australian Journal of Linguistics, and Oceanic Linguistics, and
four books. Søren Wichmann is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max
Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, and an
Assistant Professor of Native American Languages and Cultures at
Leiden University. His published work includes
The Relationship among the Mixe-Zoquean Languages of Mexico
(University of Utah Press 1995) and articles in Journal of
Linguistics, International Journal of American Linguistics, and
Annual Review of Anthropology.
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