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Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects
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Pages: 380
Authors: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their subjects or t
Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Jóhanna Barðdal
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Interest in non-canonically case-marked subjects has been unceasing since the groundbreaking work of Andrews and Masica in the late 70’s who were the first to
Number – Constructions and Semantics
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Anne Storch
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-19 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approa
Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic
Language: en
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Authors: Axel Holvoet
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This is the first of three volumes dealing with clausal architecture, grammatical relations, case-marking and the syntax–semantics interface in Baltic. It foc
Impersonal Constructions
Language: en
Pages: 653
Authors: Andrej Malchukov
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-20 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a referential subje