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Causation, permission, and transfer : argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs /

This chapter aims to study the prepositional marking and the postpositional marking of the recipient in the Persian non-canonical ditransitive alignments, which are associated respectively with a particular role that the recipient as topic or exhaustive focus plays in the information-structural repr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nolan, Brian, 1952-, Rawoens, Gudrun, 1969-, Diedrichsen, Elke
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 167.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This chapter aims to study the prepositional marking and the postpositional marking of the recipient in the Persian non-canonical ditransitive alignments, which are associated respectively with a particular role that the recipient as topic or exhaustive focus plays in the information-structural representation of the benefactive event. I will argue that overriding of the theme and recipient by each other with respect to topicality, grammatically achieved by utilizing two distinct operations including preposing and left-dislocation, determines the intended grammatical marking of the recipient. M.
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027268976
9027268975
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9781322664941
9027259321
9789027259325
ISSN:0165-7763 ;