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This volume offers a typology of reference systems across a range of typologically and genetically distinct languages, including English, Mandarin, non-literary varieties of Russian, Chadic languages, and a number of understudied Sino-Russian idiolects. The term 'reference system' designates all functions within the grammatical system of a given language that indicate whether and how the addressee(s) should identify the referents of participants in the proposition. In this book, Zygmunt Frajzyngier explores the major functional domains, subdomains, and individual functions that determine the identification of participants in a given language, and outlines which are the most and least frequently found crosslinguistically. The findings reveal that bare nouns, pronouns, demonstratives and determiners, and coding on the verb ('agreement') have different functions in different languages. The concluding chapters offer explanations for these differences and explore their implications for the theory and methodology of syntactic analysis, for linguistic typology, and for syntactic theories.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1: Introduction
2: The reference system of Mupun
3: The reference system of modern Mandarin Chinese
4: The reference system of Polish
5: The reference system in non-literary varieties of Russian
6: The reference system in Sino-Russian idiolects
7: The reference system of Pero
8: The reference system of Mina
9: The reference system of Gidar
10: The reference system of Hdi
11: The reference system of Wandala
12: The reference system of Lele
13: The reference system of English
14: Summary
15: Implications
References
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