This study examines the spontaneous oral narrative of three native speakers of Hebrew for overall clause structure in terms of number and type of arguments per clause, following DuBois' (1985) theory of Preferred Argument Structure. The results indicate that there exists a preferred shape for narrative clauses in Hebrew and that it strongly parallels that which has been found in the ergative Mayan language, Sacapultec, upon which Du Bois' study is based. As Hebrew is a nominative-accusative language, the results point to the universality of pragmatic-cognitive factors and information flow in discourse.
2014. Passive Semantic structures in the narratives of children: A Hungarian-Tunisian Arabic comparative developmental study. Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle 69:4 ► pp. 707 ff.
Hacohen, Aviya, Olga Kagan & Dana Plaut
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Jiang, Xiangyu & Liang Chen
2019. Preferred argument structure in the narratives of Chinese-English bilinguals and their monolingual peers. International Journal of Bilingualism 23:5 ► pp. 873 ff.
Matsumoto, Kazuko
2000. Intonation units, clauses and preferred argument structure in conversational Japanese. Language Sciences 22:1 ► pp. 63 ff.
Matsumoto, Kazuko
2022. NPs in Japanese conversation. Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)► pp. 163 ff.
2009. Typology of Ergativity. Language and Linguistics Compass 3:1 ► pp. 480 ff.
Newmeyer, Frederick J.
2003. ‘Basic Word Order’ in Formal and Functional Linguistics and the Typological Status of ‘Canonical’ Sentence Types. In Contrastive Analysis in Language, ► pp. 69 ff.
SHIBASAKI, REIJIROU
2006. THE EVOLUTION OF PREFERRED ARGUMENT STRUCTURE IN ENGLISH. ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 23:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
2015. ‘I’m dying on you’. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:1 ► pp. 28 ff.
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