Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notation and abbrevations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Roles and relations
- 3 Accusative, ergative and agentive systems
- 4 Syntactic relation
- 5 Passive
- 6 Passive: related and problematic issues
- 7 Antipassive
- 8 Topic and inverse systems
- 9 Causatives
- Glossary of terms
- References and citation index
- Language index
- General index
8 - Topic and inverse systems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notation and abbrevations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Roles and relations
- 3 Accusative, ergative and agentive systems
- 4 Syntactic relation
- 5 Passive
- 6 Passive: related and problematic issues
- 7 Antipassive
- 8 Topic and inverse systems
- 9 Causatives
- Glossary of terms
- References and citation index
- Language index
- General index
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- Grammatical Roles and Relations , pp. 201 - 213Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994