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Items for "accusative"

The noun phrase hierarchy and relational marking: Problems and counterevidence

A systematic collection of problems and counterexamples is presented for predictions of patterns of relational marking on noun phrases in terms of a noun phrase hierarchy (also known as animacy hierarchy), as conceived of by Silverstein (1976) and others...

Keywords: accusative, agentivity, alignment, animacy, case, ergative, hierarchy, markedness, noun phrase hierarchy, person, personal pronoun

06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter
Direct and indirect explanations of typopological regularities: The case of alignment variations

In the evolution of languages, some changes may lack functional explanations of their own and instead be mechanically triggered by changes occurring in other areas of the grammar...

Keywords: alignment, ergative, accusative, transitive, intransitive

01/2008 | Folia Linguistica, Walter de Gruyter