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The 'subject' of a sentence is a concept that presents great challenges to linguists. Most languages have something which looks like a subject, but subjects differ across languages in their nature and properties, making them an interesting phenomenon for those seeking linguistic universals. This pioneering volume addresses 'subject' nature from a simultaneously formal and typological perspective. Dividing the subject into two distinct grammatical functions, it shows how the nature of these functions explains their respective properties, and argues that the split in properties shown in 'ergative' languages (whereby the subject of intransitive verbs is marked as an object) results from the functions being assigned to different elements of the clause. Drawing on data from a typologically wide variety of languages, including English, Hebrew, Tagalog, Inuit and Acehnese, it explains why, even in the case of very different languages, certain core properties can be found.

Author Biography:

Yehuda N. Falk is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Release date Australia
November 12th, 2009
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
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Worked examples or Exercises
Pages
260
Dimensions
152x229x15
ISBN-13
9780521122955
Product ID
3341155

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