Switch reference 2.0

by Gijn, Rik van Hammond, Jeremy

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Title Statements

Full title :Switch reference 2.0 / edited by Rik van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond.

Summary

Switch reference is a grammatical process that marks a referential relationship between arguments of two (or more) verbs. Typically it has been characterized as an inflection pattern on the verb itself, encoding identity or non-identity between subject arguments separately from traditional person or number marking. In the 50 years since William Jacobsen's coinage of the term, switch reference has evolved from an exotic phenomenon found in a handful of lesser-known languages to a widespread feature found in geographically and linguistically unconnected parts of the world. The growing body of information on the topic raises new theoretical and empirical questions about the development, functions, and nature of switch reference, as well as the internal variation between different switch-reference systems. The contributions to this volume discuss these and other questions for a wide variety of languages from all over the world, and endeavour to demonstrate the full functional and morphosyntactic range of the phenomenon.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:vi, 503 pages : : maps ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027206954, 9027206953
oclc:ocn949865920
LC Classification:P299.S93
Dewey Decimal:415/.6

Subjects

Accord (linguistique) Coréférence Discourse analysis Grammar, Comparative and general -- Agr… Grammar, Comparative and general -- Swi… Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb Referenzwechsel Sprachtypologie Typologie (Linguistique) Typology (Linguistics) Verb Verbe (Linguistique)