Cases and Thematic Roles: Ergative, Accusative and Active
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Main Author: Primus, Beatrice 1953-2019 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tübingen Niemeyer 1999
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten 393
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912463
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9783110912463
Item Description:Main description: 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
Main description: 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9783484303935
9783110912463