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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Shibatani, Masayoshi, Tsunoda, Tasaku, Kageyama, Tarō, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006.
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.