Non-nuclear cases / edited by Nicole Delbecque, Karen Lahousse, Willy Van Langendonck, KU Leuven.

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Non-Nuclear Cases; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of content; Preface; List of abbreviations; Nuclear and non-nuclear cases; 1. Terminological confusion; 2. Criteria; 3. Theoretical frameworks; 4. Event schemas; 5. Form-meaning correlates: Some specific cases; 5.1 Specifying a quantitative or qualitative property of the process; 5.2 Introducing participants; 5.3 Expressing a spatial or temporal reference point; 5.4 Expressing "logical" relations; 6. Chapters in this volume; References; Obliques: Some that are, and some that aren't; 1. Introduction; 2. The postpositions.

2.1 The inventory of free forms2.2 Syntax and semantics of postpositional phrases; 2.2.1 The objects of postpositional phrases; 2.2.2 Word order; 2.2.3 Marking of third singular objects; 2.2.4 Postpositions and locative particles; 3. Typical usages of the free postpositions; 3.1 hecé 'in, at, on, towards'; 3.2 hapwá 'on, above, over'; 3.3 hetyé 'beneath, underneath, below, at the foot of'; 3.4 hemí 'to, for, with, on account of, in the midst of'; 3.5 The accompaniment hamwán 'with'; 3.6 The instrumental k9·me'e; 3.6.1 The instrumental prototypical usage.

3.6.2 Manner as current state of affairs3.6.3 Instrumental as source; 3.6.4 Instrumental as source of effect; 3.6.5 Instrumental as source of sustenance; 3.6 Instrumental as indicator of time period; 3.7 Discourse usages of the Instrumental; 3.7.1 Absolutive form of Instrumental: Closure of a scene; 3.7.2 Instrumental use in oblique relative clauses; 3.7.3 Instrumental as clausal temporal subordinator; 3.7.4 Quotative complement landmark; 3.7.5 Expressing purpose clauses; 4. Cora postpositions: Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Connate roles in Nyulnyul; 1. Introduction.

2. Relevant facts of Nyulnyul morphology2.1 The postpositions; 2.2 Case marking of free pronouns; 2.3 Bound pronouns in the inflecting verb; 3. Semiotic scheme for grammatical relations; 4. Experiential roles; 4.1 Classification of experiential roles in Nyulnyul; 4.1 Centre; 4.2 Nuclear relations; 4.3 Non-nuclear core relations; 4.4 Layering and relation sharing; 4.5 Independent CRs; 5. Conclusion; Endnotes; References; German two-way prepositions and related phenomena; 0. Introduction; 1. Two-way prepositions in German grammaticography; 1.1 Traditional accounts.

1.1.1 Atelic movement within the search domain1.1.2 Telic movement away from the search domain; 1.1.3 Telic movement crossing the search domain; 1.1.4 Telic durative movement within the search domain; 1.1.5 Endpoint focus; 1.1.6 Accusative without "change of location" or "movement"; 1.2 Paul's alternative; 1.3 Abraham's leap forward; 2. An alternative analysis and some remaining problems; 2.1 Emerging vs existing or emerging vs non-emerging relationships?; 2.2 Differentiating the dative subtypes; 2.3 Indications of a system in transition; 3. The case of über; 3.1 A typical case distribution.

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',

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