This study examines the mapping of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, onto syntactic cases, such as nominative or ergative, or onto structural relations in a cross-linguistic survey that is supplemented with German data. It is shown that cases and structural relations code different aspects of thematic structure and that cases cannot be derived from structural relations in universal grammar. The phenomena that characterize ergative and active languages are shown to be restricted to case mapping.
| ISBN: | 9783484303935 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1999 |
| Author: | Beatrice Primus |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 296 pages |
| Series: | Linguistische Arbeiten |
| Genres: |
Grammar, syntax and morphology Language teaching and learning |
This study examines the mapping of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, onto syntactic cases, such as nominative or ergative, or onto structural relations in a cross-linguistic survey that is supplemented with German data. It is shown that cases and structural relations code different aspects of thematic structure and that cases cannot be derived from structural relations in universal grammar.
Cases and Thematic Roles features in the following genres: Grammar, syntax and morphology, Language teaching and learning
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Cases and Thematic Roles was written by Beatrice Primus and published by De Gruyter
Cases and Thematic Roles has 296 pages
Yes it is part of Linguistische Arbeiten series
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