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Subjects and universal grammar : = an explanatory theory /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Subjects and universal grammar :/ Yehuda N. Falk.
Reminder of title:	an explanatory theory /
remainder title:	Subjects & Universal Grammar
Author:	Falk, Yehuda N.,
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 237 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486265
ISBN:	9780511486265 (ebook)

Subjects and universal grammar : = an explanatory theory /
Falk, Yehuda N.,1958-2012,

Subjects and universal grammar :an explanatory theory /Subjects & Universal GrammarYehuda N. Falk. - 1 online resource (xix, 237 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in linguistics ;113. - Cambridge studies in linguistics ;98..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

On subjects and explanation -- Most prominent argument -- Pivot -- Long-distance dependencies -- Control constructions -- Universality -- Competing theories.

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.

ISBN: 9780511486265 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

570470
Grammar, Comparative and general
--Topic and comment.

LC Class. No.: P271 / .F36 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 415.5

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