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Ergativity: Index of languages and language families
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The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 420 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Split ergativity & Ergative case.read more
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Language and agency
TL;DR: In this paper, a review describes and critiques some of the many ways agency has been conceptualized in the academy over the past few decades, focusing in particular on practice theorists such as Giddens, Bourdieu, de Certeau, Sahlins, and Ortner.
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World Lexicon of grammaticalization
Bernd Heine,Tania Kuteva +1 more
TL;DR: This work aims to provide an index of grammatical concepts figuring in the work Source-target lexicon and a list of languages using that lexicon as a source for grammar concepts.
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Exploring the syntax-semantics interface
Van Valin,D Robert +1 more
TL;DR: This paper aims to link syntactic and semantic representations in simple sentences and the structure of complex sentences by linking syntax and semantics in complex sentences.
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Thematic Roles and Syntactic Structure
TL;DR: One central task for any theory of grammar is to solve the so-called "linking problem", which is the problem of discovering regularities in how the participants of an event are expressed in surface grammatical forms and explaining those regularities as mentioned in this paper.
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The Cambridge handbook of endangered languages
Peter Austin,Julia Sallabank +1 more
TL;DR: The reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages are examined in this state-of-the-art Handbook of endangered languages.