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Diachrony of Differential Argument Marking

by Ilja A. Serzant , Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781013292033
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Saint Philip Street Press
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  • Pages: 564
  • Original Price: GBP 49.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1583 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / General

While there are languages that code a particular grammatical role (e.g. subject or direct object) in one and the same way across the board, many more languages code the same grammatical roles differentially. The variables which condition the differential argument marking (or DAM) pertain to various properties of the NP (such as animacy or definiteness) or to event semantics or various properties of the clause. While the main line of current research on DAM is mainly synchronic the volume tackles the diachronic perspective. The tenet is that the emergence and the development of differential marking systems provide a different kind of evidence for the understanding of the phenomenon. The present volume consists of 18 chapters and primarily brings together diachronic case studies on particular languages or language groups including e.g. Finno-Ugric, Sino-Tibetan and Japonic languages. The volume also includes a position paper, which provides an overview of the typology of different subtypes of DAM systems, a chapter on computer simulation of the emergence of DAM and a chapter devoted to the cross-linguistic effects of referential hierarchies on DAM.

This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

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