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Title Grammatical relations:
a functionalist perspective.
Author(s) Givon, T., ed.
Local Call Num. P 240.5 .G73 1997
ISBN 1-55619-646-6
978-1-55619-646-1
Status This item is currently IN the library.
Series Typological Studies in Language (TSL)
Pages viii, 349 p.
Publishing Info Philadelphia, PA John Benjamins Publishing. 1997
Loan Type/Days REG-Regular / This item may circulate for 21 Days
Department MIS-Miscellaneous
Media BK-Book
Volume/Issue 35
Subjects Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammatical categories.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.
Functionalism (Linguistics)
 
Description ill.; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographies.

Contents:
Grammatical relations / T. Givon -- Ergativity and grammatical relations in Karao / Sherri Brainard -- Evolution of grammatical relations in Cariban / Spike Gildea --Grammaticalization, clause union, and grammatical relations in Ecuadorian Highland Spanish / Marleen Haboud -- The direct object in bi-transitive clauses in Indonesian / Bambang Kaswanti Purwo -- Serial verbs and grammatical relations in Akan / E.K. Osam -- Zero anaphora and grammatical relations in Mandarin / Ming-Ming Pu -- Dative shifting and double objects in Sahaptin / Noel Rude.