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1 online resource (xix, 400 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Bibliography of Anna Siewierska -- Person by other means / Baerman, Matthew ; Corbett, Greville G. -- Patterns of alignment in verb agreement / Bickel, Balthasar ; Iemmolo, Giorgio ; Zakharko, Taras ; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena -- Human themes in Spanish ditransitive constructions / Comrie, Bernard -- The generic use of the second person singular pronoun in Mandinka / Creissels, Denis -- The referential hierarchy: reviewing the evidence in diachronic perspective / Cristofaro, Sonia -- Agreement as anaphora, anaphora as coreference / Croft, William -- Towards a distributional typology of human impersonal pronouns, based on data from European languages / Gast, Volker ; Auwera, Johan van der -- Partial coreference / Hampe, Beate ; Lehmann, Christian -- Argument indexing: a conceptual framework for the syntactic status of bound person forms / Haspelmath, Martin -- Peculiarities and origins of the Russian referential system / Kibrik, Andrej A. -- Alignment preferences in basic and derived ditransitives / Malchukov, Andrej L. -- Prosody and independence: free and bound person marking / Mithun, Marianne -- The origin and evolution of case-suppletive pronouns: Eurasian evidence / Nichols, Johanna -- Suppletion in person forms: the role of iconicity and frequency / Siewierska, Anna ; Bakker, Dik -- Index |
| Summary |
This book is dedicated to Anna Siewierska, who died, far too young, in 2011. It gathers contributions by the foremost scholars in the field of linguistic typology. They discuss topics that are prominent in Anna's work, taking either a typological or a more language specific perspective. Mindful of Anna's last monograph, Person, the majority of the articles discuss person forms, reference tracking and related issues. Further topics are grammatical alignment, voice, ditransitives, and word order |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
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Typology (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Person.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Transitivity.
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Linguistics.
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Philosophy of language.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Person
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Transitivity
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Typology (Linguistics)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Siewierska, Anna
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Bakker, Dik
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Haspelmath, Martin, 1963-
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| ISBN |
9783110331127 |
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3110331128 |
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