Screen LibraryLanguages across boundaries : studies in memory of anna siewierska /
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...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xix, 400 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783110331127 |
| Index Number: | P204 |
| CLC: | H04 |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Bibliography of Anna Siewierska -- Person by other means / Patterns of alignment in verb agreement / Human themes in Spanish ditransitive constructions / The generic use of the second person singular pronoun in Mandinka / The referential hierarchy: reviewing the evidence in diachronic perspective / Agreement as anaphora, anaphora as coreference / Towards a distributional typology of human impersonal pronouns, based on data from European languages / Partial coreference / Argument indexing: a conceptual framework for the syntactic status of bound person forms / Peculiarities and origins of the Russian referential system / Alignment preferences in basic and derived ditransitives / Prosody and independence: free and bound person marking / The origin and evolution of case-suppletive pronouns: Eurasian evidence / Suppletion in person forms: the role of iconicity and frequency / Index. |