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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 GruyterA typological overview of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu
The typologist reader is presented here with an overview of the most interesting characteristics of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu...
Keywords: actionality, animacy, aspect, clause combining, deixis, Mwotlap, negation, number, incorporation, Oceanic, possession, predication, pronoun, referentiality, serial verbs, valency change, vowel harmony
06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterMultifunctional agreement patterns in Bantu and the possibility of genderless nouns
It is generally assumed that all nouns belong to a gender in gender languages and that this constitutes a fundamental difference between gender systems and systems of noun classifiers...
Keywords: agreement, animacy, article, Bantu, borrowing, Eton, gender, kin term, noun class, number, proper name, referentiality
10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterFocused assertion of identity: A typology of intensifiers
Intensifiers such
Keywords: agreement, animacy, emphatic reflexive, focus, grammaticalization, inflection, intensifier, reflexive, word class
10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter(Non-)canonical marking of experiencer objects: a typological comparison of Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Modern Greek
This paper examines the syntactic behavior of experiencer objects in Chinese, Korean, Turkish and Modern Greek...
Keywords: experiencer, animacy, passivization, word order, topic marking
01/2008 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagAnimacy effects on differential Goal marking
This paper examines Differential R Marking (DRM) – i.e., the effects of animacy on the encoding of goals (R), as in ‘a linguist sent a book to the phonetician/to the town’ – from a crosslinguistic perspective...
Keywords: animacy, Differential Object Marking, goal, indirect object, markedness, object, recipient
01/2008 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter