Active/Agentive Case Marking and Its Motivations

Mithun, M. (1991). Active/Agentive Case Marking and Its Motivations. Language, 67(3), 510-546.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1991

DOI

10.2307/415036

Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/415036

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Domain-specific

• Active–Stative Alignment
  • In a fluid-S system, at least some predicates permit both patterns, and the coding varies with a constrained construal of the event or participant—for example, greater control versus accidental involvement—not with unconstrained stylistic whim.

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