Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

46 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. Here the coming into contact of the theme z, the knife, with the locative y, the cake, brings it abo ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 47 must be actor and undergoer. For verbs which have a single macrorole, the default ch ...

48 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. at least some of the members of the class (state, activity, achievement or accomplishment) must take ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 49 No list or other explicit statement of the thematic relations associated with a verb ...

50 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. clause structure in particular and of syntax in general. RRG takes a rather different view of gramma ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 51 tactic predicate-argument relation in addition to the semantic relations of actor an ...

(^52) ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. enclitic signals the same information about the undergoer. Note that the form of the clitic prono ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 53 b. *Jih ji-jak geu-peuréksa lé dokto. 3sG -go -examine by doctor "(S)he went to ...

54 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. b. Lôn seunang-até. ISG happy-liver "I am happy." c. Ka lôn-tët rumoh gopnyan. IN ISG Α-burn house 3 ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 55 treatment in this construction. In Acehnese, on the other hand, this neu­ tralizatio ...

56 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. stated in terms of thematic relations alone, each statement would include a disjunctive list of them ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 57 of the construction. In order for a syntactic pivot to exist, there must be a restri ...

58 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. syntactic pivots of these two constructions. The pivots of the three construc­ tions discussed here ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 59 syntactically accusative languages by means of the marked passive construc­ tion in ...

60 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. clauses which share a common topical participant; Dixon (1972) labelled the corresponding constructi ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 61 and not focal and can therefore be the antecedent for zero anaphora. Thus in topic c ...

62 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. clauses the verbs are passive, indicating a change in semantic function from actor to undergoer. In ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 63 do not affect the choice of which argument will be pivot with a transitive verb in A ...

64 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. abade "the girls" denotes the primary topical participants, it is not always pivot; in the third cla ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 65 (46) a. Syntactic pivot [+pragmatic influence]: the selection of the argument to fun ...