The Viability of the Notion of Subject in Coast Tsimshian
The status of subject as a linguistic universals is commonly assumed. For example, the classification of the word order of a language as SVO, SOV, etc. presupposes the universal occurrence of subject; many language universale such as Mithun’s (1984) hierarchy for noun incorporation are stated in ter...
| Published in: | Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1989
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100013281 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008413100013281 |
| Summary: | The status of subject as a linguistic universals is commonly assumed. For example, the classification of the word order of a language as SVO, SOV, etc. presupposes the universal occurrence of subject; many language universale such as Mithun’s (1984) hierarchy for noun incorporation are stated in terms of subject; and, some theories such as Relational Grammar take subject as a primitive. |
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