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Symmetrical voice and linking in Western Austronesian languages.

This book is an in-depth study of the voice systems of Totoli, Balinese, Indonesian, and Tagalog, which shows that the symmetrical nature of these systems poses a problem to current linking theories. It provides an analysis of symmetrical linking within two grammatical theories (LFG & RRG) and d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Riesberg, Sonja
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2014.
Colección:Pacific linguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Symmetry of the Voices in Indonesian, Balinese, Totoli, and Tagalog
  • 3 Linking Semantic Arguments to Syntax
  • 4 Coreness, Obliqueness, and the Status of the Passive Actor
  • 5 A Modified LFG Approach to Linking
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index of subjects.