Subjects and Universal Grammar

Name: Subjects and Universal Grammar
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521122955
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An Explanatory Theory

Автор: Yehuda N. Falk

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Издател: Cambridge University Press

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The 'subject' of a sentence is a concept that presents great challenges to linguists. Most languages...

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Автор

Yehuda N. Falk

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2009

страници

260

EAN

9780521122955

ISBN

0521122953

Enbook ID

02022940

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

390

Размери

152 x 229 x 15

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The 'subject' of a sentence is a concept that presents great challenges to linguists. Most languages have something which looks like a subject, but subjects differ across languages in their nature and properties, making them an interesting phenomenon for those seeking linguistic universals. This pioneering volume addresses 'subject' nature from a simultaneously formal and typological perspective. Dividing the subject into two distinct grammatical functions, it shows how the nature of these functions explains their respective properties, and argues that the split in properties shown in 'ergative' languages (whereby the subject of intransitive verbs is marked as an object) results from the functions being assigned to different elements of the clause. Drawing on data from a typologically wide variety of languages, including English, Hebrew, Tagalog, Inuit and Acehnese, it explains why, even in the case of very different languages, certain core properties can be found.

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