TY  - INPR
A1  - Bickel, Balthasar
T1  - On the scope of the referential hierarchy in the typology of grammatical relations
N2  - In the late seventies, Bernard Comrie was one of the first linguists to explore the effects of the referential hierarchy (RH) on the distribution of grammatical relations (GRs). The referential hierarchy is also known in the literature as the animacy, empathy or indexibability hierarchy and ranks speech act participants (i.e. first and second person) above third persons, animates above inanimates, or more topical referents above less topical referents. Depending on the language, the hierarchy is sometimes extended by analogy to rankings of possessors above possessees, singulars above plurals, or other notions. In his 1981 textbook, Comrie analyzed RH effects as explaining (a) differential case (or adposition) marking of transitive subject ("A") noun phrases in low RH positions (e.g. inanimate or third person) and of object ("P") noun phrases in high RH positions (e.g. animate or first or second person), and (b) hierarchical verb agreement coupled with a direct vs. inverse distinction, as in Algonquian (Comrie 1981: Chapter 6).
KW  - Grammatik
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/15117
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1160422
UR  - http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~bickel/research/papers/rhgr_bb2007.pdf
N1  - Draft of chapter in: Corbett, G. & M. Noonan [eds.] Case and grammatical relations. Papers in honor of Bernard Comrie, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
ER  -