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Case-systems all over the world exhibit striking similarities. In most lan- guages intransitive subjects (S) receives less overt marking than one of the two transitive arguments (agent-like A or patient-like P); the other one of these two arguments is usually encoded by the same form as S. In some...

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Language:English
Published: Language Science Press 2015
Online Access:http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/18