Possessivity, Subject and Object

Towards And Explicit Description Of Possessivity

Any grA-ar must aocou~t for the category of possessiv-ity. As far as we ~now this category is not yet exhaustively described for any language. In this paper we want to demonstrate an explicit approach to this complicated language phenomenon. The functional generative grammar proposed by Sgall and worked out in the group of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, is chosen for th...

Incremental distinguishability of subject and object

The subject and the object in a transitive clause should be distinguishable. We discuss five different ways in which distinguishability can be obtained: (i) case morphology, (ii) agreement, (iii) selectional criteria of the verb, (iv) word order, and (v) prominence, in particular animacy. We argue that these different sources of information can be viewed as violable and potentially conflicting ...

Treasuring identity : subject-object relations in Beowulf

Subject-Object Asymmetries in Korean Sentence Comprehension

The Entropy Reduction Hypothesis (Hale, 2006) derives the subject-object asymmetry in Korean relative clauses. This asymmetry has been observed by Kwon, Polinsky, and Kluender (2006), among others. Agreement between the Entropy Reduction predictions and the available empirical data suggests that the heightened comprehension difficulty attested in object-extracted relatives is due to distinctive...

Subject Agreement, Object Agreement and Specificity in Swahili