How Functional Motivation Precedes Syntactic Change: Evolution of Grammatical Relations in Cariban

Gildea, Spike

doi:10.1075/tsl.35.04gil

In:Grammatical Relations: A functionalist perspective
Edited by T. Givón
[Typological Studies in Language 35] 1997
► pp. 155–198

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Evolution of Grammatical Relations in Cariban

How Functional Motivation Precedes Syntactic Change

Spike Gildea

Published online: 27 November 1997

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.35.04gil

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