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The Viability of the Notion of Subject in Coast Tsimshian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Jean Mulder
Jean Mulder*
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University of Alberta
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The status of subject as a linguistic universals is commonly assumed. For example, the classification of the word order of a language as SVO, SOV, etc. presupposes the universal occurrence of subject; many language universale such as Mithun’s (1984) hierarchy for noun incorporation are stated in terms of subject; and, some theories such as Relational Grammar take subject as a primitive.

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , June 1989 , pp. 129 - 144
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1989

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