Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as architecture for function
Edited by John W. Du Bois, Lorraine E. Kumpf and William J. Ashby
Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by using it to explain the origins of ergativity and… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 14] 2003. ix, 458 pp.



