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Case, animacy and semantic roles /
The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these c...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Indeterminado |
| Published: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2011.
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| Series: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 99. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these chapters primarily deal with lesser studied phenomena, such as animacy effects on spatial cases and the differences between cases and adpositions in the coding of spatial relations. In addition, theoretical and diachronic issues related to case and semantic roles are also discussed; for example, what. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 354 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027284815 9027284814 1283286718 9781283286718 9786613286710 6613286710 |