Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

426 MARY L. NUNES — i.e. where the possessed NP needs to be foregrounded in relation to the posses­ sor NP — the possessor occur ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 427 What was not emphasized in that discussion is that RRG's explanation for the ina­ bili ...

MARY L. NUNES cisely because it does not permit an ACM performance-object interpretation. ACTs which do permit such an interpret ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 429 Parentheses are used here to reflect the idiosyncratic preclusion of A's vN with some o ...

430 MARY L. NUNES (1990) for a discussion of inverse-form distribution in the Georgian perfect series (1990:243-247). As future ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 431 Although single-argument process ACHs like landing can take an accumulated- action int ...

432 MARY L. NUNES Foley, William A. & Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 1984. Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar. Cambridge: Ca ...

On the Syntactic and Semantic Alignment of Attributive and Identificational Constructions* Linda Schwartz Indiana University In ...

434 LINDA SCHWARTZ objective in Choctaw but subjective in Italian, "sneeze" is subjective in Ita­ lian and Dutch but objective i ...

ATTRIBUTIVES AND IDENTIFICATIONALS 435 tion will be semantically motivated (in the sense of Lakoff (1987)). This is the position ...

436 LINDA SCHWARTZ this paper, is the cross-linguistic patterning of identificational structures such as Sam is a sailor and att ...

ATTRIBUTIVES AND IDENTIFICATIONALS 437 1.1 Russian One kind of evidence in Russian for distinguishing subjective and objective s ...

438 LINDA SCHWARTZ In an analysis of Russian subjective and objective constructions within a Government-Binding framework, Peset ...

ATTRIBUTIVES AND IDENTIFICATIONALS 439 1.3 Dakota In Dakota, intransitive predicates are divided into two classes, depending on ...

440 LINDA SCHWARTZ 1.4 Italian The pattern of subjective behavior of attributive and identificational con­ structions can be see ...

ATTRIBUTIVES AND IDENTIFICATIONALS 441 (20) Giovanni èlha stato professore. Giovanni is/has been professor "Giovanni was/has bee ...

442 LINDA SCHWARTZ sarily a contradiction, if we distinguish between thematic structure and syn­ tactic argument structure. Esse ...

ATTRIBUTIVES AND IDENTIFICATIONALS 443 and Reference Grammar, this analysis would be expressed schematically as in (26), with th ...

(^444) LINDA SCHWARTZ verbal element. In all of the languages, the location in concrete locative expressions is expressed with a ...

ATTRIBUTIVES AND IDENTIFICATIONALS 445 an activity predicate in the lexical semantics of the verb. Languages select subjects/pra ...