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Grammatical Roles and Relations (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) - Softcover

Palmer, Frank Robert

 
9780521458368: Grammatical Roles and Relations (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Synopsis

A typological survey of Subject, Object and related grammatical concepts in the languages of the world.

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Review

'A valuable source of information and examples...amply illustrated with examples of languages ... a comprehensive and systematic presentation'. International Review of Applied Linguistics

Book Description

Frank Palmer's new book is a typological survey of grammatical roles, such as Agent and Patient, and grammatical relations, such as Subject and Direct Object. A great wealth of examples is used to show that the grammatical systems of the familiar European languages are far from typical of many of the world's languages.

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