Control and complex arguments in Balinese

1

Introduction

1.1

How languages express "state of affairs" arguments

1.2

Bresnan's (1982 ) account of control

1.3

Grammatical functions and argument structure

2

Introduction to voice-marking in Balinese

2.1

Objective voice alternations on derived transitive and

ditransitive verbs

3

General properties of control in Balinese

3.1

Evidence for the Surface Ergative Analysis

3.2

What can be controlled?

3.3

What can be a controller?

4

Control and voice alternations in Balinese

4.1

Verbs with three semantic arguments

4.1.1

Proposed representation at argument-structure

4.2

Verbs with two semantic arguments

4.2.1

edot: an orientation verb

4.2.2

n/tegarang: a commitment verb

4.2.3

Raising verbs

4.3

Verbs with a single semantic argument representing a

"state of affairs"

4.3.1

Proposed representation at argument-structure

5

Summary

References