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

• 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

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.