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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal m
Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical
Language: en
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Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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This volume analyzes constructions with non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, drawing on insights from cognitive and discours
Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects
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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
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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
The Diachrony of Ditransitives
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Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-26 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main proc