Chapter 4
The grammar of case
Semantic role, pragmatic function, morphology and syntactic control
Article outline
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.2Clausal participants and semantic roles
- 4.2.1States, events, and actions
- 4.2.2Semantic roles
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4.2.3Grammatical roles
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4.2.4Topicality and grammatical relations
- 4.3The accessibility hierarchy: Government of complex construction
- 4.3.1Preliminaries
- 4.3.2Functional definition of relative clauses
- 4.3.2.1Anaphoric grounding: Restrictive rel-clauses modifying definite head nouns
- 4.3.2.2Cataphoroic grounding: Restrictive rel clause with indefinite head nouns
- 4.3.2.3Ancilliary asserted information: Non-restrictive rel-clauses
- 4.3.3The cross-language typology of rel-clauses
- 4.3.3.1Preamble: The case-role recoverability problem
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4.3.3.2The zero-cum-gap strategy: Japanese
- 4.3.3.3Clause chaining and anaphoric pronouns: Bambara and Hittite
- 4.3.3.4The anaphoric pronoun or pronominal agreement strategy: Hebrew
- 4.3.3.5Nominalized rel-clauses: Ute
- 4.3.3.5.1Preamble: Nominalization and non-finiteness
- 4.3.3.5.2Ute rel-clauses
- 4.3.3.6Case-marked demonstrative pronouns and Y-movement: German
- 4.3.3.7The verb-coding relativization strategy
- 4.3.3.7.1Preliminaries
- 4.3.3.7.2Coupling relativization to passivization: Bikol
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4.3.3.7.3Relativization, promotion to direct object and the “direct-object-only” constraint: KinyaRwanda
- 4.4Discussion
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Notes
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Abbreviations of grammatical terms