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 GruyterThe author discusses the definition of the so called personal death and maintains that the negation of the biological dimension of death which follows from a dualistic lockean anthropology adopted by many contemporary bioethicists represents a banalisation of human death...
Keywords: Tod, person, Körper, natürlicher Tod, Bioethik
01/2008 | Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Akademie Verlag