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The 'subject' of a sentence is a concept that presents great challenges to linguists. Most languages have something which looks like a subject, but subjects differ across languages in their nature and properties, making them an interesting phenomenon for those seeking linguistic universals. This pioneering volume addresses 'subject' nature from a simultaneously formal and typological perspective. Dividing the subject into two distinct grammatical functions, it shows how the nature of these functions explains their respective properties, and argues that the split in properties shown in 'ergative' languages (whereby the subject of intransitive verbs is marked as an object) results from the functions being assigned to different elements of the clause. Drawing on data from a typologically wide variety of languages, including English, Hebrew, Tagalog, Inuit and Acehnese, it explains why, even in the case of very different languages, certain core properties can be found.

Grammar --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Focus (Linguistics). --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Noun phrase. --- Topic and comment. --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Noun phrase --- Subject (Grammar) --- Discourse analysis --- Topic and comment --- Subject and predicate --- Syntax --- Complex nominals --- Subject --- Nominals --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Grammar --- Bantu language --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Meta language (Cameroon) --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Bameta language --- Chubo language --- Menemo language --- Metta language --- Mitaa language --- Muta language --- Grassfields Bantu languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Discourse analysis --- Variation --- Derivation --- Topic and comment --- Theses