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Publication details [#29703]

Gerdts, Donna B. 1993. Mapping Halkomelem grammatical relations. Linguistics 31 (4) : 591–621.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argument | crosslinguistic perspective | passive | reflexive construction | relational grammar

Language as a subject

Salish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper argues that mapping analysis is better than the classical relational grammar analysis, as it enables heretofore uncharacterizable crosslinguistic generalizations. A mapping theory treatment of several voice phenomena is developed, with focus on data from Halkomelem Salish.