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A Contrastive View on Non–Canonical Subjects: Prototype Effects, Semantic Roles and Metonymy
Dubravko Kučanda
Gabrijela Buljan
Sažetak
The mapping between primary grammatical relations (subject, direct object, indirect object)
and semantic roles is largely discussed in terms of which semantic role can be mapped
onto which grammatical relation (or vice versa) as if semantic roles imposed absolute constraints
in the sense that a language systematically excludes the mapping between some
grammatical relations and semantic roles (semantic functions) beyond a cut off point on
the Semantic Function Hierarchy. Any deviation from the semantic prototype of the subject
has as a consequence non–canonical morphosyntactic properties of subjects (e. g. oblique
case marking, inability to undergo some syntactic processes and lack of properties
which are not peculiar to subject qua grammatical relation), that is, such semantically
non–prototypical subjects do not exhibit the full array of subject–like properties. This paper
argues that semantic roles do not impose absolute constraints on the mapping between
grammatical relations and semantic roles. The mapping between a semantic role low on
the Semantic Function Hierarchy and the grammatical relation subject is possible in cases
of some referential metonymies, i. e. only some uses or meanings of a semantic role allow
such mapping.
Our aim in this paper is not to provide a detailed contrastive analysis of non–canonically
marked subjects in any two languages. We want to point to some aspects that have been
largely neglected in contrastive analyses of non–nominative subjects.
Ključne riječi
contrastive analysis; grammatical relations; subject; prototypes; semantic roles; metonymic mapping
Hrčak ID:
15871
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Datum izdavanja:
1.11.2005.
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