Argument structure and grammatical relations : a crosslinguistic typology /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2012.
Description:xv, 406 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in language companion series ; v. 126
Studies in language companion series ; v. 126.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8903025
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Other authors / contributors:Suihkonen, Pirkko.
Comrie, Bernard, 1947-
Solovʹev, V. D. (Valeriĭ Dmitrievich)
ISBN:9789027205933 (hb : alk. paper)
9027205930 (hb : alk. paper)
9789027274717 (eb)
9027274711 (eb)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. The\editors
  • 2. The\authors
  • 3. Preface
  • 4. Introduction
  • 5. A\deceptive case of split-intransitivity in Basque
  • 6. Some argument-structure properties of 'give' in the languages of Europe and Northern and Central Asia
  • 7. Grammatical relations in a typology of agreement systems
  • 8. Causatives in Agul
  • 9. Continuity of information structuring strategies in Eastern Khanty
  • 10. Patterns of asymmetry in argument structure across languages
  • 11. Topic marking and the construction of narrative in Xibe
  • 12. On the hierarchy of structural convergence in the Amdo Sprachbund
  • 13. Pyramids of spatial relators in Northeastern Turkic and its neighbors
  • 14. What's in the head of head-marking languages?
  • 15. Transitives, causatives and passives in Korean and Japanese
  • 16. Core argument patterns and deep genetic relations
  • 17. Three takes on grammatical relations
  • 18. On aspect, aspectual domain and quantification in Finnish and Udmurt
  • 19. Indexes