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The Origin of Agent Markers

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Akademie Verlag, 2002 - Grammar, Comparative and general - 310 pages
  

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Contents

Introduction
1
Defining the Object of Study
10
The Samples
16
Asyncretic Agent Markers
22
Functional Extensions and Agent Markers
45
Causation
63
Instruments
88
Cause
115
Passive Agents
147
The Origin of Passive Agent Markers
196
A conceptual approach
209
Ergatives
229
The Origin of Ergative Markers
244
Revisiting Agent Markers
262
References
269
Appendixes
294

Energizers
140
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Typology of Ergativity
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The Origin of Agent Markers aims at finding the sources from which morpho-. logical markers (cases or adpositions) come to express the semantic role Agent. ...
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TitleThe Origin of Agent Markers
Volume 5 of Studia typologica
AuthorEnrique L. Palancar
PublisherAkademie Verlag, 2002
ISBN3050037679, 9783050037677
Length310 pages
  
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