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Case, typology, and grammar : in honor of Barry J. Blake / edited by Anna Siewierska, Jae Jung Song.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Typological studies in language ; v. 38.
- Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 38
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Case.
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (399 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The present volume is a collection of fifteen original articles that include descriptive, typological and/or theoretical studies of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena, such as case, transitivity, grammaticalization, valency alternations, etc., in a variety of languages or language groups, and discussions concerning theoretical issues in specific grammatical frameworks. The collection, written in honor of the Australian linguist Barry J. Blake on his 60th birthday, thematically reflects the field that Professor Blake has worked in over the past three decades. The volume will be of special in
- Contents:
- CASE,TYPOLOGY AND GRAMMAR; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Publications of Barry Blake; On the semantic frames of be and 'possessive 'have; 'Crow is sittingchasingthem ' Grammaticisation and the verb 'to sit 'in the Mantharta languages, Western Australia; Factors of typology in language acquisition: Some examples from Warlpiri; Markedness and iconicity: Some questions; Throw the baby from the window a cookie English and Pennsylvania German in contact; The great Daghestanian case hoax; Iwaidja mutation and its origins
- Functional control with and without structure-sharingApplicative constructions in Warrwa; From event sequence to grammar: Serial verb constructions in Kalam; Passive-to-ergative versus inverse-to-ergative; Benefactive marking in Oceanic languages: From possessive classi .ers to benefactive markers; Ergativity, transitivity, and clitic coreference in four Western Austronesian languages; A discourse explanation fo the cross-linguistic differences in the grammar of interrogation and negation; Applicative constructions in Warrungu of Australia; Language Index; Subject Index
- The Series TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN LANGUAGE
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- "Publications of Barry Blake": p. [xiv]-xx.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612162879
- 9781282162877
- 128216287X
- 9789027298614
- 9027298610
- OCLC:
- 70767558
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