Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert D. Van Valin Jr. plays a role.

Journal

Titles

Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

Edited by Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 82] 1992. xiii, 569 pp.
Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Osswald, Rainer and Robert D. Van Valin Jr. 2022 Chapter 10. The description of transitive directed motion in Lakhota (Siouan)Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions, Sarda, Laure and Benjamin Fagard (eds.), pp. 209–233 | Chapter
Siouan languages such as Lakhota provide an interesting case for the study of transitive directed motion descriptions because of their rich inventory of deictic motion verbs and instrumental (causative) affixes. The goal of this article is to show in detail how the different meaning components… read more
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 2022 Role and reference grammarHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1171–1180 | Chapter
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 2018 Chapter 5. Dative case and oblique subjectsNon-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey (eds.), pp. 115–132 | Chapter
Oblique subjects often occur in the dative case in many languages, and given that dative subjects frequently co-occur with experiential verbs, this has led to the view that dative signals ‘experiencer’, along with its ‘recipient’ meaning with verbs of giving. There are, however, many other uses of… read more
Bohnemeyer, Jürgen and Robert D. Van Valin Jr. 2017 The macro-event property and the layered structure of the clauseStudies in Language 41:1, pp. 142–197 | Article
We ask whether there is a “macro-event phrase,” a uniform level of syntax at which complex scenarios may be described as single events under the Macro-Event Property (MEP). The MEP is a form-meaning mapping property that constrains the compatibility of event descriptions with time-positional… read more
Matić, Dejan, Rik van Gijn and Robert D. Van Valin Jr. 2014 Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences: An overviewInformation Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences, Gijn, Rik van, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio (eds.), pp. 1–42 | Article
This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management – more specifically information structure (IS) and reference tracking (RT) – come together. Complex sentences are a highly relevant but understudied domain for studying notions of IS and RT. On… read more
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. and Ricardo Mairal Usón 2014 Interfacing the lexicon and an ontology in a linking systemTheory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Francisco Gonzálvez-García (eds.), pp. 205–228 | Article
The aim of this paper is to discuss the repercussions of a conceptual orientation on two crucial parts of the Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) linking algorithm, that is, semantic representation and constructional schemas. Firstly, it is argued that adopting FunGramKB’s notion of conceptual logical… read more
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 2013 Head-marking languages and linguistic theoryLanguage Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake (eds.), pp. 91–124 | Article
In her path-breaking 1986 paper, Johanna Nichols proposed a typological contrast between head-marking and dependent-marking languages. Nichols argues that even though the syntactic relations between the head and its dependents are the same in both types of language, the syntactic “bond” between… read more
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 2012 Some issues in the linking between syntax and semantics in relative clausesRelative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview, Comrie, Bernard and Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), pp. 47–64 | Article
Relative clauses present an interesting challenge for theories of the syntaxsemantics interface, because one element functions simultaneously in the matrix and relative clauses. The exact nature of the challenge depends on whether the relative clause is externally-headed or internallyheaded.… read more
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 2009 Role and Reference GrammarGrammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, Brisard, Frank, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 239–249 | Article
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 2009 Role and reference grammarHandbook of Pragmatics: 2009 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article
Many syntactic theories assume a universal set of lexical categories, and they further assume these lexical categories are the basis of endocentric phrasal projections in the syntax. Role and Reference Grammar [RRG] makes neither of these assumptions, and in this paper an RRG account of lexical… read more
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 1995 Role and reference grammarHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 461–469 | Article
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 1994 Extraction Restrictions, Competing Theories and the Argument from the Poverty of the StimulusThe Reality of Linguistic Rules, Lima, Susan D., Roberta Corrigan and Gregory Iverson, pp. 243 ff. | Article
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 1992 A synopsis of role and reference grammarAdvances in Role and Reference Grammar, Van Valin Jr., Robert D. (ed.), pp. 1 ff. | Article
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. and David P. Wilkins 1992 Predicting syntactic structure from semantic representation: Remember in English and its equivalents in Mparntwe ArrernteAdvances in Role and Reference Grammar, Van Valin Jr., Robert D. (ed.), pp. 499 ff. | Article
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 1990 Layered syntax in role and reference grammarLayers and Levels of Representation in Language Theory: A functional view, Nuyts, Jan, A. Machtelt Bolkestein and Co Vet (eds.), pp. 193 ff. | Article
Van Valin Jr., Robert D. 1981 Grammatical Relations in Ergative LanguagesStudies in Language 5:3, pp. 361–394 | Article
Two of the most important issues in the discussion of ergativity concern the pattern of syntactic organization and notion of subject in ergative languages. A number of scholars have claimed that most morphologically ergative languages are in fact syntactically accusative. Data from four ergative… read more