Grammatical relations
Subtitle: a functionalist perspective
By: edited by T. Givón.
Contributors: Givón, Talmy, 1936-
Series: Typological studies in language,; v. 35
Publisher: J. Benjamins; John Benjamins Pub Co; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization.; Functionalism (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Grammatical relations / T. Givón; title: Ergativity and grammatical relations in Karao / Sherri Brainard; title: Evolution of grammatical relations in Cariban / Spike Gildea; title: Grammaticalization, clause union, and grammatical relations in Ecuadorian Highland Spanish / Marleen Haboud; title: The direct object in bi-transitive clauses in Indonesian / Bambang Kaswanti Purwo; title: Serial verbs and grammatical relations in Akan / E.K. Osam; title: Zero anaphora and grammatical relations in Mandarin / Ming-Ming Pu; title: Dative shifting and double objects in Sahaptin / Noel Rude.