A view from the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia: Three takes on grammatical relations

Siewierska, Anna; Bakker, Dik

doi:10.1075/slcs.126.13sie

In:Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology
Edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev
[Studies in Language Companion Series 126] 2012
► pp. 295–324

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Three takes on grammatical relations

A view from the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia

Anna Siewierska | University of Lancaster, Dept. of General Linguistics

Dik Bakker | Dept. of General Linguistics Universities of Amsterdam and Lancaster and Societas Linguistica Europaea

Published online: 18 July 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.126.13sie

In this contribution we discuss three different approaches to grammatical relations (GR), all situated within the functional-typological paradigm. Taking the major distinctions from these as a point of departure, we construct a three-way typology to classify languages with respect to GRs. Finally, we locate the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia within this typology.

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