Grammatical Roles and Relations

by Frank Robert Palmer

Overview

Frank Palmer's new book is a typological survey of grammatical roles, such as Agent, Patient, and Beneficiary, as well as grammatical relations, such as Subject, (Direct) Object and Indirect Object, which are familiar concepts in traditional grammars. 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. Grammatical Roles and Relations will be welcomed by all those interested in language typology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521458368
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/25/1994
Series:	Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Roles and relations; 3. Accusative, ergative and agentive systems; 4. Syntactic relations; 5. Passive; 6. Passive: related and problematic issues; 7. Antipassive; 8. Topic and inverse systems; 9. Causatives; Glossary of terms; References and citations index; Language index; General index.

Editorial Reviews

'A valuable source of information and examples...amply illustrated with examples of languages ... a comprehensive and systematic presentation'. International Review of Applied Linguistics

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