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The Viability of the Notion of Subject in Coast Tsimshian
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2016
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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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