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...

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Published in:Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique
Main Author: Mulder, Jean
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1989
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spelling crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0008413100013281 2024-03-03T08:49:11+00:00 The Viability of the Notion of Subject in Coast Tsimshian Mulder, Jean 1989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100013281 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008413100013281 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique volume 34, issue 2, page 129-144 ISSN 0008-4131 1710-1115 Linguistics and Language Language and Linguistics journal-article 1989 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100013281 2024-02-08T08:32:22Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tsimshian Tsimshian* Cambridge University Press Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 34 2 129 144
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