Semantic Role Universals and Argument Linking : : Theoretical, Typological, and Psycholinguistic Perspectives / / ed. by Ina Bornkessel, Matthias Schlesewsky, Bernard Comrie, Angela D. Friederici.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Berg, Helma,; Bickel, Balthasar,; Bierwisch, Manfred,; Bisang, Walter,; Bornkessel, Ina,; Bossong, Georg,; Comrie, Bernard,; Friederici, Angela D.,; Piñango, Maria Mercedes,; Primus, Beatrice,; Schlesewsky, Matthias,; Valin, Robert D.,; Wunderlich, Dieter,
• HerausgeberIn: Bornkessel, Ina,; Comrie, Bernard,; Friederici, Angela D.,; Schlesewsky, Matthias,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 165
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (363 p.) :; Numerous fig. and tab.

The concept of semantic roles has been central to linguistic theory for many decades. More specifically, the assumption of such representations as mediators in the correspondence between a linguistic form and its associated meaning has helped to address a number of critical issues related to grammat...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Argument hierarchy and other factors determining argument realization
• Mismatches in semantic-role hierarchies and the dimensions of role semantics
• Thematic roles - universal, particular, and idiosyncratic aspects
• Experiencer constructions in Daghestanian languages
• Clause-level vs. predicate-level linking
• From meaning to syntax - semantic roles and beyond
• Meaning, form and function in basic case roles
• Semantic macroroles and language processing
• Thematic roles as event structure relations
• Generalised semantic roles and syntactic templates: A new framework for language comprehension
• Backmatter