Grammatical Relations in Acehnese

Durie, Mark

doi:10.1075/sl.11.2.05dur

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“…Although widely used, this system is far from optimal: among other things, it cannot account for the diversity of fundamental (non-derived) clause types found in many languages (McGregor, 1997(McGregor, , 2002. See Durie (1987), Mithun and Chafe (1999), DeLancey (2006) for other problems, including problems in the assumption of a universal S category, especially in active languages.…”

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Optional ergative case marking systems in a typological-semiotic perspective

McGregor

2010

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Optional ergative case marking systems in a typological-semiotic perspective

McGregor

2010

Lingua

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“…For a long time it was presumed that the notion itself could simply be applied as a cross-linguistic concept. This changed when evidence emerged that 'subject' defined in this way could not be coherently applied to all languages, with crucial evidence coming from radically different languages like Mandarin (Li and Thompson 1981), Acehnese (Durie 1987), and Tagalog (Schachter 1976). "Subject" was clearly not a primitive that could be the basis for systematic comparison; instead, it had to be decomposed into different properties to make visible how languages converged or diverged from each other in marking grammatical relations (Li 1976;Keenan 1976;Dryer 1997).…”

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Other-initiated repair across languages: towards a typology of conversational structures

Dingemanse¹,

Enfield²

2015

Open Linguistics

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This special issue reports on a cross-linguistic study of other-initiated repair, a domain at the crossroads of language, mind, and social life. Other-initiated repair is part of a system of practices that people use to deal with problems of speaking, hearing and understanding. The contributions in this special issue describe the linguistic resources and interactional practices associated with other-initiated repair in ten different languages. Here we provide an overview of the research methods and the conceptual framework. The empirical base for the project consists of corpora of naturally occurring conversations, collected in fieldsites around the world. Methodologically, we combine qualitative analysis with a comparative-typological perspective, and we formulate principles for the cross-linguistic comparison of conversational structures. A key move, of broad relevance to pragmatic typology, is the recognition that formats for repair initiation form paradigm-like systems that are ultimately language-specific, and that comparison is best done at the level of the constitutive properties of these formats. These properties can be functional (concerning aspects of linguistic formatting) as well as sequential (concerning aspects of the interactional environment). We show how functional and sequential aspects of conversational structure can capture patterns of commonality and diversity in conversational structures within and across languages.

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“…Massam (1985: p,283) reaches the same conclusion. In fact, as Baker and Massam note, this statement holds true in Charnorro (Gibson 1992), Acehnese (Durie 1987), and other Austronesian languages, and Swahili (Keach & Rochemont 1992b) and some Bantu languages. But, as Broadwell (1990) points out, possessor-raising from the subject of an unergative verb is possible in Chickasaw:…”

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“…(1990) on Southern Tiwa, Be1 (1983) on Cebuano, Blake (1984) on ALE$&UI languages, Davies (1986) on Choctaw, Durie (1987) on Acehnese, Gl'bson (1992) on Chamorro, Klokeid (1976) on Lardll, O'Connor (1992) on Northern Pomo, Stanion (1990) on M a i m etc. Cf , also, Fox (198 I), Robinson (1979), and Seiler (1983) …”

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