Publications
Publication details [#7264]
Oosten, Jeanne Van. 1980. Subjects, topics and agents: Evidence from property- factoring. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 6 : 479–494.
Annotation
A study of the functional contexts in which two types of sentences ('The man's singing exasperated his neighbors' and 'The price of rice went up', derived by 'property-factoring' from 'The man exasperated his neighbors with his singing' and 'Rice went up in price') occur.