Differential Subject Marking

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hoop, Helen de (Editor), Swart, Peter de (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 72
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Comparative linguistics.; Grammar.; Semantics.; Syntax.; Theoretical Linguistics.; Comparative Linguistics.

Although (almost) all sentences have subjects, not all sentences encode their subjects in the same way. Some languages overtly mark some subjects, but not others, depending on certain features of the subject argument or the sentence in which the subject figures. This phenomenon is known as Different...