Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.