Voice and grammatical relations : in honor of Masayoshi Shibatani /
This volume presents thirteen original papers dealing with various aspects of two related areas of research of major concern to linguists of all theoretical persuasions: voice and grammatical relations. The papers are written from typological, functional, and cognitive perspectives, and contain a nu...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2006.
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Series: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 65. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Voice and Grammatical Relations; Editorial page; Title; LCC data; Photo: Professor Masayoshi Shibatani; Table of contents; List of contributors; Preface; Selected bibliography of Masayoshi Shibatani; The Hawaiian passive/imperative particle; Indiscrete grammatical relations; Valency sets in Kashmiri; Property description as a voice phenomenon; Dimensions of defocusing; On grammatical relations as constraints on referent identification; Participant roles, thematic roles and syntactic relations; Information focus in relational clause structure; Voice without subjects, objects, or obliques.