The role languages of the North Caucasus: A.E. Kibrik’s idea after 40 years
In the paper, we present new material to evaluate the theoretical assumptions and basic claims of the idea of “role languages” which was put forward in the linguistic typology about 1980 by William Foley, Robert Van Valin and Aleksandr E. Kibrik. Our point of special interest are the languages of th...
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2021-06-01
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| description | In the paper, we present new material to evaluate the theoretical assumptions and basic claims of the idea of “role languages” which was put forward in the linguistic typology about 1980 by William Foley, Robert Van Valin and Aleksandr E. Kibrik. Our point of special interest are the languages of the East and West Caucasian families, including the East Caucasian languages of Dagestan which Kibrik claimed to belong to the role type. Role languages are those in which the morphosyntactic marking of arguments are directly determined by semantic roles, with no intermediate level of grammatical relations like subject and object. It is shown that the characteristics of case marking of verbs’ arguments, lack of the passive voice, neutrality or role orientation of functional priority features do not correlate and most likely do not form any consistent “role type”. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3fc7d83a6b99484bb1e398eb63ceba252022-12-21T21:11:12ZengMoscow Pedagogical State University, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher EducationRhema. Рема2500-29532021-06-012658310.31862/2500-2953-2021-2-65-83The role languages of the North Caucasus: A.E. Kibrik’s idea after 40 yearsYa.G. Testelets0Russian State University for the HumanitiesIn the paper, we present new material to evaluate the theoretical assumptions and basic claims of the idea of “role languages” which was put forward in the linguistic typology about 1980 by William Foley, Robert Van Valin and Aleksandr E. Kibrik. Our point of special interest are the languages of the East and West Caucasian families, including the East Caucasian languages of Dagestan which Kibrik claimed to belong to the role type. Role languages are those in which the morphosyntactic marking of arguments are directly determined by semantic roles, with no intermediate level of grammatical relations like subject and object. It is shown that the characteristics of case marking of verbs’ arguments, lack of the passive voice, neutrality or role orientation of functional priority features do not correlate and most likely do not form any consistent “role type”.https://rhema-journal.com/Rema_2021_2_Testelets.pdfeast caucasian languageswest caucasian languagesrole languagesgrammatical relationspassive voiceergativity |
| spellingShingle | Ya.G. Testelets The role languages of the North Caucasus: A.E. Kibrik’s idea after 40 years Rhema. Рема east caucasian languages west caucasian languages role languages grammatical relations passive voice ergativity |
| title | The role languages of the North Caucasus: A.E. Kibrik’s idea after 40 years |
| title_full | The role languages of the North Caucasus: A.E. Kibrik’s idea after 40 years |
| title_fullStr | The role languages of the North Caucasus: A.E. Kibrik’s idea after 40 years |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role languages of the North Caucasus: A.E. Kibrik’s idea after 40 years |
| title_short | The role languages of the North Caucasus: A.E. Kibrik’s idea after 40 years |
| title_sort | role languages of the north caucasus a e kibrik s idea after 40 years |
| topic | east caucasian languages west caucasian languages role languages grammatical relations passive voice ergativity |
| url | https://rhema-journal.com/Rema_2021_2_Testelets.pdf |
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