Towards a Universal Definition of ‘Subject’.

Keenan, E. L. (1976). Towards a Universal Definition of ‘Subject’. Subject and Topic.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1976

Link

https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/keenan/Papers/Keenan-universal-subject.pdf

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Grammatical Relation
  • This separation allows syntax to describe how a language packages participants without asserting that all subjects are agents or all objects are patients.

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