Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology
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This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of grammatical relations and argument structure in the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA). Topics covered with respect to individual languages are: split-intransitivity (Basque), causativization (Agul), transitives and causatives (Korean and Japanese), aspectual domain and quantification (Finnish and Udmurt), head-markingprinciples (Athabaskan languages), and pragmatics (Eastern Khanty and Xibe). Typology of argument-structure properties of 'give' (LENCA), typology of agreement systems, asymmetry in argumen.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Bernard Comrie
Pirkko Suihkonen
Valery Solovyev - Language
- English
- Series
- Studies in Language Companion Series
- ISBN
- 9789027274717
- Release date
- 2012
