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Elisabeth Verhoeven

(Non-)canonical marking of experiencer objects: a typological comparison of Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Modern Greek

Keywords: experiencer, animacy, passivization, word order, topic marking

This paper examines the syntactic behavior of experiencer objects in Chinese, Korean, Turkish and Modern Greek. It is shown that, while in Modern Greek, experiencer objects differ from canonical direct objects, this is not the case in Chinese, Korean and Turkish. This difference is explained by the range of paradigmatic alternatives that are available in the respective languages for the coding of experiential situations.

STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag

Print ISSN: 0942-2919
Volume: 61, 01/2008
Pages: 81 - 92

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