Preferred argument structure
John W. Du Bois, Lorraine Edith Kumpf, William J. Ashby · 2003
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About the book
Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by using it to explain the origins of ergativity and ergative marking systems. Since this work, the general applicability of Preferred Argument Structure has been demonstrated in studies of language after language. In this collection, the authors move beyond verifying Preferred Argument Structure as a property of a given language. They use the methodolog.
Book details
- Year
- 2003
- Language
- English
- Series
- Studies in discourse and grammar -- v. 14
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Pub. Co.
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 458
- ISBN
- 9789027296139
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