Items for "noun phrase hierarchy"

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