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A Typology of Reference Systems (Hardcover)
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A Typology of Reference Systems (Hardcover)
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This volume offers a typology of reference systems across a range
of typologically and genetically distinct languages, including
English, Mandarin, non-literary varieties of Russian, Chadic
languages, and a number of understudied Sino-Russian idiolects. The
term 'reference system' designates all functions within the
grammatical system of a given language that indicate whether and
how the addressee(s) should identify the referents of participants
in the proposition. In this book, Zygmunt Frajzyngier explores the
major functional domains, subdomains, and individual functions that
determine the identification of participants in a given language,
and outlines which are the most and least frequently found
crosslinguistically. The findings reveal that bare nouns, pronouns,
demonstratives and determiners, and coding on the verb
('agreement') have different functions in different languages. The
concluding chapters offer explanations for these differences and
explore their implications for the theory and methodology of
syntactic analysis, for linguistic typology, and for syntactic
theories.
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