The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of th

Semantic roles have continued to intrigue linguists for more than four decades now, starting with determining their kind and number, with their morphological ex

This is the first of a series of 6 books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European, resulting from work by a team of

Especially in functional-typological linguistics, semantic roles have been studied thoroughly, because they constitute a good starting point for any study on ar

Prepositions and cases constitute a fruitful field of research for semantics. The historical development of their meaning can shed light on the relations among