THE SHAWNEE ALIGNMENT SYSTEM: APPLYING PARADIGM FUNCTION MORPHOLOGY TO LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR'S M-STRUCTURE

Shawnee is a language whose alignment system is of the type first proposed by Nichols (1992) and Siewierska (1998): hierarchical alignment. This alignment system was proposed to account for languages where distinctions between agent (A) and object (O) are not formally manifested. Such is the case in...

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Main Author: Hardymon, Nathan
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2015
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Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/ltt_etds/8
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=ltt_etds