Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

466 MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN nailing; second, the fashioning of a theory of inherent phonetic content of phonemes that is necessarily ...

OF NOMINATIVES AND DATIVES 467 sional predicates of sound-classes ("features") in terms of which we specify the phonetics of syl ...

468 MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN equal. And it is an explicit condition that any particular language must be compatible with the universa ...

OF NOMINATIVES AND DATIVES^469 Thus, in a language with only two "true vowel" phonemes, i.e., phonemes that can always serve as ...

470 MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN 1. Léxico- and grammaticosemantic categories So the "relatively restricted and transparent subject matte ...

OF NOMINATIVES AND DATIVES^471 Figure 1 ken) there is no general word for "color" differentiating a specific realm of hue-satura ...

472 MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN Figure 2 The respective complements of these categories gives pragmatically deduci- ble "present" and "p ...

OF NOMINATIVES AND DATIVES 473 Figure 3 tiality (i.e., successivity) with respect to the moment of speaking as prior (plus vecto ...

474 MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN 2. Case-marking categories in particular Let us turn to another formal-functional domain, which was orig ...

OF NOMINATIVES AND DATIVES 475 cates and arguments. Another of these domains is clause-clause logical rela­ tions, which involve ...

476 MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN Hierarchical Array of Noun Phrase Types: segmentables social persons social indexicals indexicals of spe ...

OF NOMINATIVES AND DATIVES^477 sitive to one or both of the arguments of a predicate. The special case of sensitivity to only on ...

478 MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN Figure 5 distinctions of types of formal case-markings which differentiate, for exam­ ple, the centrally ...

OF NOMINATIVES AND DATIVES 479 language, for presentation of NPs as arguments to different classes of pred­ icates, what we migh ...

480 MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN than those of the minimal set coding Agent-Patient-Subject. For some lan­ guages, there is incredible fo ...

OF NOMINATIVES AND DATIVES 481 tive sequitur, no semantic connexion, up through a whole range of inhe­ rently logical dependenci ...

(^482) MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN As we move up the hierarchy of linkage types in Figure 6, there seems to be greater and greater forma ...

OF NOMINATIVES AND DATIVES 483 guages show a typological range into at least two major classes, that corre­ spond in a fundament ...

484 MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN in one category vs. the other with respect to the other clause. There is, then, an "accusative"-like str ...

OF NOMINATIVES AND DATIVES 485 3. Two examples of telescoping case-marking paradigms Now let us consider the case-marking system ...