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Objects and information structure /

"In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how differential object marking is affected by information structure, the st...

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Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Dalrymple, Mary
Другие авторы: Nikolaeva, Irina
Формат: Printed Book
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Серии:Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 131.
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Оглавление:
  • 1. Introduction; 2. Syntactic assumptions; 3. Information structure in grammar; 4. Syntax and information structure; 5. Topicality and grammatical marking; 6. Topical marking of nonsubjects; 7. Topicality and DOM; 8. Primary and secondary objecthood and DOM; 9. Multiple objects and grammatical alignment; 10. Semantic features, topicality and grammaticalisation; 11. Conclusion.