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Typology of Reference Systems

By Zygmunt Frajzyngier

Typology of Reference Systems

By Zygmunt Frajzyngier

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This volume offers a typology of reference systems across a range of typologically and genetically distinct languages, including English, Mandarin, non-literary varieties of Russian, Chadic languages, and a number of understudied Sino-Russian idiolects. The term 'reference system' designates all functions within the grammatical system of a given language that indicate whether and how the addressee(s) should identify the referents of participants in the proposition. In this book, Zygmunt Frajzyngier explores the major functional domains, subdomains, and individual functions that determine the identification of participants in a given language, and outlines which are the most and least frequently found crosslinguistically. The findings reveal that bare nouns, pronouns, demonstratives and determiners, and coding on the verb ('agreement') have different functions in different languages. The concluding chapters offer explanations for these differences and explore their implications for the theory and methodology of syntactic analysis, for linguistic typology, and for syntactic theories.
Product details
Number of Pages:
418
Release Date:
2023-04-20
Publication Date:
2023-04-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0192896431
ISBN13:
9780192896438
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
790 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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