Grammatical relations [[electronic resource] ] : a functionalist perspective / / edited by T. Givón
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| Titolo: |
Grammatical relations [[electronic resource] ] : a functionalist perspective / / edited by T. Givón
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1997 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 415 |
| Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammatical categories |
| Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammaticalization | |
| Functionalism (Linguistics) | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
GivónTalmy <1936->
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Grammatical relations |
| ISBN: | 1-283-31578-5 |
| 9786613315786 | |
| 90-272-7578-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457774503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Typological studies in language ; ; v. 35.