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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Subjects And Subjecthood In Nepali: An Analysis Of Nepali Clause Structure And Its Challenges To Relational Grammar And Government & Binding
Abstract
dc:descriptionBoth Early and Modern Nepali use a variety of nonbasic clause structures, including dative-subject (inversion) clauses, obligational (gerundive) clauses, passive clauses, and, in Early Nepali, ergative clauses. The properties of basic clause subjects are split in these clauses between two NPs--the 'logical', nonnominative subject and the grammatical nominative subject. This distribution can be explained by assuming that an NP which controls subject properties shares some functional or configurational feature with basic clause subjects. The acquisition of subject properties by ergative agents has effected basic clause syntax in the Nepali perfective tense.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Linguistics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Wallace, William David
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8521899
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69829