| Cases and Thematic Roles Reprint 2010 Edition Contributor(s): Primus, Beatrice (Author) |
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ISBN: 348430393X ISBN-13: 9783484303935 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $146.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Syntax - Foreign Language Study | German |
| Dewey: 425 |
| LCCN: 99219883 |
| Series: Linguistische Arbeiten |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 8.5" W x 11" (2.16 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study examines the mapping of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, onto syntactic cases, such as nominative or ergative, or onto structural relations in a cross-linguistic survey that is supplemented with German data. It is shown that cases and structural relations code different aspects of thematic structure and that cases cannot be derived from structural relations in universal grammar. The phenomena that characterize ergative and active languages are shown to be restricted to case mapping. |