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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Format: | Conference Object |
Language: | English |
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Tomsk State Pedagogical University
2010
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Online Access: | http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1269 |
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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