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Okombo, Duncan Okoth. 1983. Alpha vs. non-alpha: Some observations on the position of semantic functions on the SFH. In Dik, Simon C., ed. Advances in functional grammar. Foris. pp. 143–154.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

functional grammar1 | object | pragmatic function | semantic case | subject

Annotation

It is claimed that Dholuo is a language in which the syntactic functions subject and object (as defined within the theory of functional grammar) are not applicable: semantic and pragmatic functions are sufficient. Some proposals concerning the 'Semantic Function Hierarchy' are made.