Differential Subject Marking
Although (almost) all sentences have subjects, not all sentences encode their subjects in the same way. Some languages overtly mark some subjects, but not others, depending on certain features of the subject argument or the sentence in which the subject f
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Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory VOLUME 72
Managing Editors Marcel den Dikken, City University of New York Liliane Haegeman, University of Lille Joan Maling, Brandeis University Editorial Board Guglielmo Cinque, University of Venice Carol Georgopoulos, University of Utah Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hilda Koopman, University of California, Los Angeles Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
DIFFERENTIAL SUBJECT MARKING Edited by
HELEN DE HOOP Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
and
PETER DE SWART Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Contributors List of Abbreviations 1
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Cross-linguistic Variation in Differential Subject Marking Helen de Hoop, Peter de Swart
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Differential Subject Marking at Argument Structure, Syntax, and PF Ellen Woolford
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Quantitative Variation in Korean Case Ellipsis: Implications for Case Theory Hanjung Lee
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Ergative Case-marking in Hindi Helen de Hoop, Bhuvana Narasimhan
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DOM and Two Types of DSM in Turkish Jaklin Kornfilt
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Differential Subject Marking in Polish: The Case of Genitive vs. Nominative Subjects in “X was not at Y”-constructions Joanna Błaszczak
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Differential Argument Marking in Two-term Case Systems and its Implications for the General Theory of Case Marking Peter M. Arkadiev
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Non-canonical Agent Marking in Agul Dmitry Ganenkov, Timur Maisak, Solmaz Merdanova
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From Topic to Subject Marking: Implications for a Typology of Subject Marking Yukiko Morimoto
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Grammaticalization and Strategies in Resolving Subject Marking Paradoxes: The Case of Tsimshianic Jason Brown and Tyler Peterson
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Different Subjects, Different Marking Mark Donohue
12
Differential Marking of Intransitive Subjects in Kambera (Austronesian) Marian Klamer
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PREFACE This volume has its genesis in the PIONIER Workshop “Differential Subject Marking”, held at the Radboud University Nijmegen in July 2004, and organised by Tessel van Balen and us. We would like
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