Publications
Publication details [#7052]
Nichols, Johanna. 1981. Transitivity and foregrounding in the North Caucasus. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 7 : 202–221.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
On the basis of a survey of prose texts in Chechen, N. discusses an instance of systematically higher transitivity in verb forms specialized for backgrounding.