Principles of event framing : genetic stability in grammar and discourse

  • Ever since Wilhelm von Humboldt’s (1836) pioneering study of Nahuatl, linguists have recurrently recognized that languages differ fundamentally in the syntactic weight they attribute to noun-phrases as the arguments of a verb. Currently, the most prominent attempts to turn this intuition into a precise hypothesis revolve around the notion of ‘configurationality’.

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Author:Balthasar BickelORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1160538
Document Type:Report
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2010/08/10
Year of first Publication:1999
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/08/10
GND Keyword:Grammatik
Source:http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~bickel/research/papers/events.pdf ; Ms., University of California, Berkeley, 1999
HeBIS-PPN:425126919
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht