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Record Nr.

UNINA9910975335803321

Titolo

Grammatical relations : a functionalist perspective / / edited by T. Givón

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1997

ISBN

1-283-31578-5

9786613315786

90-272-7578-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Collana

Typological studies in language, , 1067-7373 ; ; v. 35

Altri autori (Persone)

GivónTalmy <1936->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammatical categories

Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammaticalization

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Grammatical relations / T. Givón -- Ergativity and grammatical relations in Karao / Sherri Brainard -- Evolution of grammatical relations in Cariban / Spike Gildea -- Grammaticalization, clause union, and grammatical relations in Ecuadorian Highland Spanish / Marleen Haboud -- The direct object in bi-transitive clauses in Indonesian / Bambang Kaswanti Purwo -- Serial verbs and grammatical relations in Akan / E.K. Osam -- Zero anaphora and grammatical relations in Mandarin / Ming-Ming Pu -- Dative shifting and double objects in Sahaptin / Noel Rude.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970's, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility and discourse topicality. With some exceptions, functionalists have thus ceded the discussion of the structural correlates of GRs to various formal schools. Ever since Edward Keenan's pioneering work on subject properties (1975, 1976), it has been apparent that subjecthood and objecthood can only