For the sake of an argument. Grammatical relations and argument selectors in Baltic

A review article


Abstract

Axel Holvoet & Nicole Nau, eds., Argument Realization in Baltic. (Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 3) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2016. viii + 560 p. ISBN (hardback): 9789027259110, ISBN (e-book): 9789027267535

This volume is the third in the series Valency, Argument Realization and Gram-matical Relations in Baltic. It comprises thirteen articles, the majority of which are devoted to case and case alternations, with several articles dealing with top-ics such as secondary predicates, applicative and causative constructions, and nominalizations. In this review, I summarize and discuss each of the articles in turn, and conclude with some general comments.

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review; Argument Realization in Baltic

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Grossman, E. (2018). For the sake of an argument. Grammatical relations and argument selectors in Baltic. Baltic Linguistics, 9, 239-271. https://doi.org/10.32798/bl.373

Eitan Grossman  eitan.grossman@mail.huji.ac.il
The Hebrew University, Department of Linguistics, Mount Scopus, IL-91805 Jerusalem  Israel
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7479-7831