Subjecthood and the notion of instantiation

Language Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 651-678

  Taverniers, Miriam ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cognitive grammar; Grammatical relations; Grounding; Instantiation; Predication; Subject; Systemic functional grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744521875     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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