The nominative & accusative and their counterparts /:

This volume is devoted to the central cases relating to the basic oppositions between subject-object and agent-patient, viz. nominative and accusative, as well as their counterparts such as ergative and absolutive. It aims at contributing to the typological investigation of these cases by providing...

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Weitere Verfasser: Davidse, Kristin, Lamiroy, Béatrice
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamin Pub. Co., ©2002.
Schriftenreihe:Case and grammatical relations across languages ; v. 4.
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
DE-863
Zusammenfassung:This volume is devoted to the central cases relating to the basic oppositions between subject-object and agent-patient, viz. nominative and accusative, as well as their counterparts such as ergative and absolutive. It aims at contributing to the typological investigation of these cases by providing descriptive studies of ten different languages, not only Romance and Germanic languages, but also Polish and Basque, as well as Cora, Warrwa and Ewe. These studies show that the formal devices used to mark the two nuclear cases may be quite diverse (including non-overt and 'configurational' coding), but that all the languages studied crucially display a subject-object asymmetry, even languages such as Basque and Ewe for which this had been questioned. One of the most striking subthemes to emerge from this collection is the complexity of the object-zone, both with regard to formal and functional diversity. Various studies in the volume also contribute reflections, couched mainly in broadly cognitive-functional terms, about the semantic function of the subject-object contrast and why it is so central across languages.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 362 pages :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-352) and indexes.
ISBN:1588111822
9781588111821
9789027297792
9027297797
1282162195
9781282162198
9786612162190
6612162198

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