Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles

Abstract

1. Introduction to case, animacy and semantic roles (by Kittila, Seppo) 2. Remarks on the coding of Goal, Recipient and Vicinal Goal in European Uralic (by Kittila, Seppo) 3. A case in search of an independent life: The semantics of the initial allative in a Finnish verbless construction (by Vasti, Katja) 4. The division of labour between synonymous locative cases and adpositions: The Estonian adessive and the adposition peal 'on' (by Klavan, Jane) 5. Is there a future for the Finnish comitative?: Arguments against the putative synonymy of the comitative case -ine and the postposition kanssa (by Sirola-Belliard, Maija) 6. Animacy and spatial cases: Typological tendencies, and the case of Basque (by Creissels, Denis) 7. There's than more animate: The Organization/Document Construction in Korean (by Song, Jae Jung) 8. The coding of spatial relations with human landmarks: From Latin to Romance (by Luraghi, Silvia) 9. A survey of the origins of directional case suffixes in European Uralic (by Ylikoski, Jussi) 10. Dutch spatial case (by Lestrade, Sander) 11. Case on the margins: Pragmatics and argument marking in Vaeakau-Taumako and beyond (by Naess, Ashild) 12. Why should beneficiaries be subjects (or objects)?: Affaction and grammatical relations (by Zuniga, Fernando)