基本説明
Based on Du Bois (1987), the authors use the methodology of Preferred Argument Structure, to reveal more subtle aspects of the patterns, for example, to look across languages, diachronically or synchronically, to examine particular grammatical relations.
Full Description
Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by using it to explain the origins of ergativity and ergative marking systems. Since this work, the general applicability of Preferred Argument Structure has been demonstrated in studies of language after language. In this collection, the authors move beyond verifying Preferred Argument Structure as a property of a given language. They use the methodology to reveal more subtle aspects of the patterns, for example, to look across languages, diachronically or synchronically, to examine particular grammatical relations, and to examine special populations or particular genres. This volume will appeal to linguists interested in the relationship of pragmatics and grammar generally, in the typology of grammatical relations, and in explanations derived from data- and corpus-based approaches to analysis.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Abbreviations; 3. Introduction (by Du Bois, John W.); 4. Argument structure: Grammar in use (by Du Bois, John W.); 5. Preferred Argument Structure across time and space: A comparative diachronic analysis of French and Spanish (by Ashby, William J.); 6. The lexicon in interaction: Developmental origins of Preferred Argument Structure in Korean (by Clancy, Patricia M.); 7. Genre and Preferred Argument Structure: Sources of argument structure in classroom discourse (by Kumpf, Lorraine E.); 8. Issues in the comparative argument structure analysis in Mayan narratives (by England, Nora C.); 9. New light on information pressure: Information conduits, "escape valves", and role alignment stretching (by Durie, Mark); 10. Beyond Preferred Argument Structure: Sentences, pronouns, and given referents in Nepali (by Genetti, Carol); 11. Multiple constraints on reference form: Null, pronominal, and full reference in Mapudungun (by Arnold, Jennifer E.); 12. Argument splits in Finnish grammar and discourse (by Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa); 13. Core arguments and the inversion of the nominal hierarchy in Roviana (by Corston-Oliver, Simon H.); 14. Preferred Argument Structure in early Inuktitut spontaneous speech data (by Allen, Shanley E.M.); 15. The role of Preferred Argument Structure for understanding aphasic sentence planning (by Kohn, Susan E.); 16. Nominal information flow in the talk of two boys with autism (by Weber, Elizabeth G.); 17. Tracking the deer: Nominal reference, parallelism and Preferred Argument Structure in Itzaj Maya narrative genres (by Hofling, Charles Andrew); 18. Narrator virtuosity and the strategic exploitation of Preferred Argument Structure in Mocho: Repetition and constructed speech in Mocho narrative (by Martin, Laura); 19. Preferred Argument Structure Bibliography; 20. Name index; 21. Language index; 22. Subject index
