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Switch-reference and Universal Grammar
Language: en
Pages: 359
Authors: John Haiman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb.
The Formal Grammar of Switch-Reference (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Language: en
Pages: 231
Authors: Daniel L Finer
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book studies the syntax of switch-reference and its implications for the theory of grammar. Switch-reference, found in many genetically and geographically
Case and Grammatical Relations
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Greville G. Corbett
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-19 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical rel
Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: John Haiman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combi
Iconicity in Syntax
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: John Haiman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The papers in this volume all explore one kind of functional explanation for various aspects of linguistic form iconicity: linguistic forms are frequently the w