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This volume presents thirteen original papers dealing with various aspects of two related areas of research of major concern to linguists of all theoretical persuasions: voice and grammatical relations. The papers are written from typological, functional, and cognitive perspectives, and contain a number of general studies as well as studies focusing on specific issues, and offer a wealth of data from a broad range of languages. The volume provides up-to-date discussions of an array of issues of theoretical concern, including the nature of grammatical relations, voice in agent/patient systems, the expression vs. non-expression of participant roles, and personal vs. impersonal passives. The papers in the volume demonstrate that investigations into the nature of voice and grammatical relations can still yield fresh theoretical and typological insights.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammatical categories. --- Voice. --- Grammar --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Voice (Grammar) --- Categories, Grammatical --- Grammatical categories --- Categorization (Linguistics) --- Componential analysis (Linguistics) --- Voice --- Major form classes --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Grammar [Comparative ] --- Linguistics --- Philology

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This monograph examines the effects of first language typology on the interlanguage of learners of English as a second language. Adapting William Rutherford's (1983) view of interlanguage as the typological intersection between the first language and the second language, the study demonstrates how first language effects subtly shape learner choices even at near native proficiency. Grounded in the tradition of transfer research and in the research program in generative grammar, the evidence presented shows the distribution of noun+noun compounds such as the love song and phrasal noun combinations such as the song about love in interlanguage data. These two patterns, it is argued, are systematically related by determiner properties and the process of noun incorporation. Obtained from a multi-task cross-sectional experiment, the data illustrates that learners with Czech as their first language use phrasal constructs (the song about love) significantly more often in production than learners with Mandarin Chinese as their first language, whose preferred choice are noun+noun compounds (the love song). The differences between the learner groups reflect the use of overt case marking in the first language Czech and the absence of overt case marking in the first language Mandarin Chinese.

English language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Categories, Grammatical --- Grammatical categories --- Categorization (Linguistics) --- Componential analysis (Linguistics) --- Noun. --- Grammatical categories. --- Major form classes --- Nominals --- Noun --- Second language acquisition --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Germanic languages

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Dieser Sammelband enthält eine Auswahl der Beiträge, die 1994 auf einem Workshop zur Distinktion lexikalischer Kategorien gehalten wurden. Die verschiedenen theoretischen Richtungen zuzuordnenden Arbeiten befassen sich mit allgemeinen Problemen der Kategorisierung sowie mit Fragen, die sich speziell für bestimmte lexikalische Kategorien (Nomina, Verben, Präpositionen, Konjunktionen) insbesondere in Abgrenzung zu funktionalen Kategorien ergeben. The volume contains a selection of papers given at a workshop organized in 1994 on major lexical categories. The seven articles in this volume take a variety of viewpoints concerning problems of distinguishing major categories in general, as well as problems in connection with specific categories, namely nouns, verbs, prepositions, and conjunctions.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Categories, Grammatical --- Grammatical categories --- Categorization (Linguistics) --- Componential analysis (Linguistics) --- Major form classes --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Congresses --- German language --- English language --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Semantics. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammatical categories.

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This paper focuses on oblique variation in the passive. It relies on insights on causal modeling to study the construction types available to express a passive or medio-passive meaning in Spanish. Oblique variation is argued to fulfill an important function in the profiling of the relation between agent and patient, causer and causee, affectant and affectee. The choice of the preposition is shown to function as a device for agenthood management. Based on distributional evidence, the systematic survey of representative corpus examples with the four most frequent prepositions (por 'by, through',

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammatica. --- Naamvallen. --- Case. --- Word order. --- Grammatical catagories. --- Morphology. --- Semiotics. --- Structural linguistics. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Case --- Word order --- Grammatical catagories --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Grammar, Comparative --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Order (Grammar) --- Grammatical categories. --- Categories, Grammatical --- Grammatical categories --- Categorization (Linguistics) --- Componential analysis (Linguistics) --- Major form classes

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This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970's, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility and discourse topicality. With some exceptions, functionalists have thus ceded the discussion of the structural correlates of GRs to various formal schools. Ever since Edward Keenan's pioneering work on subject properties (1975, 1976), it has been apparent that subjecthood and objecthood can only

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Linguistics --- Structural linguistics --- Grammaticalization --- Semantics --- Categories, Grammatical --- Grammatical categories --- Categorization (Linguistics) --- Componential analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammatical categories. --- Grammaticalization. --- Syntax --- Major form classes --- Catégories grammaticales --- Grammaticalisation --- Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique) --- Grammar --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Philology