Grammatical Roles and Relations

Name: Grammatical Roles and Relations
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521452045
Price: 7050 KES
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ISBN: 9780521452045

by Frank Robert Palmer

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

ISBN-10 052145204X

ISBN-13 9780521452045

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 25th, 1994

Print length 275 Pages

Weight 578 grams

Product Classification: Grammar, syntax & morphology

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A typological survey of Subject, Object and related grammatical concepts in the languages of the world.

Frank Palmer''s new book is a typological survey of grammatical roles, such as Agent, Patient, Beneficiary, and grammatical relations, such as Subject, Direct Object and Indirect Object, which are familiar concepts in traditional grammars. It describes the devices, such as the Passive, that alter or switch the identities between such roles and relations. A great wealth of examples is used to show that the grammatical systems of the familiar European languages are far from typical of many of the world''s languages, for which we need to use such terms as ''Ergative'' and ''Antipassive''. Professor Palmer provides an elegant and consistent framework within which grammatical roles and relations may be discussed, combining a great clarity of discussion with evidence from an enormous number of the world''s languages.

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