The noun phrase hierarchy and relational marking: Problems and counterevidence

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 77-113

  Filimonova, Elena ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accusative; Agentivity; Alignment; Animacy; Case; Ergative; Hierarchy; Markedness; Noun phrase hierarchy; Person; Personal pronoun

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248704830     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lity.2005.9.1.77     Document Type: Review

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