Grammatical Relations : a functionalist perspective.

This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility an...

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Main Author: Givón, T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1997.

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505 0 |a GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS: A FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Editor's Preface; GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS: An Introduction; Ergativity and Grammatical Relations in Karao; Evolution of Grammatical Relations in Cariban: How Functional Motivation Precedes Syntactic Change; Grammaticalization, Clause Union and Grammatical Relations in Ecuadorian Highland Spanish; The Direct Object in Bi-transitive Clauses in Indonesian; Serial Verbs and Grammatical Relations in Akan; Zero Anaphora and Grammatical Relations in Mandarin. 
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