Differential Subject Marking / Preliminary Entry 72
Editor: Helen DeHoop
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. (United States), 2008
Hardback, 324 pages
Size: 235x155 mm
ISBN: 9781402064982
ISBN-10: 1402064985
Differential Subject Marking / Preliminary Entry 72
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. This book shows that DSM is the result of interactions between conflicting constraints on language use.

