Differential Subject Marking

Differential Subject Marking
Author: Helen de Hoop
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2007-12-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1402064977
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Not all sentences encode their subjects in the same way. Some languages overtly mark some subjects depending on certain features of the subject argument or the sentence in which the subject figures. This is known as Differential Subject Marking (DSM). Containing illuminating discussions of DSM from languages all over the world, this book shows that DSM is often the result of interactions between conflicting constraints on language use.