Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

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ADVANCES IN ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR ...

AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E.F. KONRAD KOERNER (University of Ottawa) Seri ...

ADVANCES IN ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR Edited by ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, Jr. State University of New York Buffalo, N.Y. JOHN BENJAM ...

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Advances in Role and Reference Grammar / Edited by Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. p ...

Table of Contents Editor's Introduction ix ...

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viii TABLE OF CONTENTS A Synopsis of Role and Reference Grammar PART I: THE THEORY Introduction Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. ...

Editor's Introduction This volume presents research within Role and Reference Grammar [RRG] which has been built on the foundati ...

χ EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Part Two contains ten papers, nine of which present RRG analyses of specific phenomena. The tenth paper ...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION χι tificational Constructions", examines the semantics of attributive/identifica- tional constructions, e. ...

Xll EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Wilkins argues that it is possible to predict the form that the complement of a verb will take from th ...

Part I: The Theory ...

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A Synopsis of Role and Reference Grammar* Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. SUNY Buffalo 0. Introduction^1 This paper is a synopsis of Ro ...

2 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. information management and discourse patterns; it is not a system in the sense that has been assumed ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 3 abstract syntactic underlying form, but the details of the syntactic and (lex­ ical) ...

4 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. The notion of clause structure that a theory posits is a function of a number of interacting factors. ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 5 to free-word-order, flat-syntax languages such as Dyirbal and Malayalam, to head-mark ...