An edition of Preferred argument structure
(2003)
Preferred argument structure
grammar as architecture for function
by John W. Du Bois, Lorraine Edith Kumpf, and William J. Ashby
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Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by using it to explain the origins of ergativity and ergative marking systems. Since this work, the general applicability of Preferred Argument Structure has been demonstrated in studies of language after language. In this collection, the authors move beyond verifying Preferred Argument Structure as a property of a given language. They use the methodolog.
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Preferred argument structure: grammar as architecture for function
2003, John Benjamins Pub. Co.
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