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Plank, Frans. 1979. Ergativity, syntactic typology and universal grammar: Some past and present viewpoints. In Plank, Frans, ed. Ergativity: Towards a theory of grammatical relations. Academic Press. pp. 3–36.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
Some speculations on pragmatic and semantic determinants of central grammatical notions such as subject and object, with the intention to support the traditional but controversial view that ergativity has to be accounted for in semantic and pragmatic terms.