Marriage bear-hunting & dangerous things Eastern Khanty Agent-demotion constructions

Choice of constructions - cognitive faculty, discourse coherence in context, structuring information, affecting linguistic form (morphosyntax). System's grammatical resources - pragmatic and semantic properties - speaker’s choice. Agent-demotion constructions = de-transitive events, multiple re...

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Main Author: Filchenko (Фильченко), Andrey (Андрей)
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: Tomsk State Pedagogical University 2010
Subjects:
Western Siberian linguistic area
languages
Khanty language
Eastern Khanty clause types
framework
terminology
morphosyntactic
semantic
grammatical relations
pragmatic functions
generalizations
khanty
Online Access:http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1269
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Summary:Choice of constructions - cognitive faculty, discourse coherence in context, structuring information, affecting linguistic form (morphosyntax). System's grammatical resources - pragmatic and semantic properties - speaker’s choice. Agent-demotion constructions = de-transitive events, multiple referents, competing salience. Agented passive and ergative constructions = parenthetical shifts in agent salience, gradience in discourse prominence, primary and secondary topicality = promotion/demotion, foregrouonding/backgrounding, Loc.case, grammatical relation shift.

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