Essays on language function and language type : dedicated to T. Givón /

Essays on language function and language type : dedicated to T. Givón /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1997.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 478 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Typology (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general. Functionalism (Linguistics) Functionalism (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general. Typology (Linguistics) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11124098

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Other authors / contributors:	Givón, Talmy, 1936- Bybee, Joan L. Haiman, John. Thompson, Sandra A.
ISBN:	9789027274212 9027274215 1556195222 9781556195228 9027221685 9789027221681
Notes:	Includes index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Essays on language function and language type. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1997 1556195222

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Instead of an Introduction
2. From His Colleagues
3. His Publications
4. The\Essays
5. Semantic Aspects of Morphological Typology
6. The\Typology of Predicate Case Marking
7. Grammaticalization and the Gradience of Categories
8. A\Typology of Argument-Determined Constructions
9. Are Grammatical Relations Universal?
10. Introducing Ergative Word Order via Reanalysis
11. Living in Three Languages
12. Self-Abasement in Language
13. The\Misumalpan Causative Construction
14. On Attributive Possession in Kabiye
15. When `Grammar' and Discourse Clash
16. A\Dynamic Account of Grammatical Function
17. On Zero Anaphora
18. Head-Marking and Objecthood
19. Participant and Event Anaphora in Newspaper Articles
20. Lexical Affixes and Morphological Typology
21. Versatile Nominalizations
22. The\Maasai External Possessor Construction
23. Voice in Seko Padang
24. Mind, Code and Text
25. Index