The Noun Phrase in Bengali: Assignment of Role and the Kāraka Theory

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Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1990 - 357 pàgines
The notions of Karaka and Vacya comprising a theory of co-reference in Syntactico Semantics is an established theory in Indian Grammar.In relation to the descriptive analysis of Bengali noun-phrase the complexity of Karaka-Vacya configuration has been discussed in this book. Also the notion of role and the notion of ergative have been dealt with.

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INTRODUCTION
1
THE NOUN PHRASE
28
DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS OF THE NOUN PHRASES
60
NOMINALS AS SUBJECT AND AS PREDICATE
214
CONCLUSION
235
Bibliography
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Pàgina 160 - Locative (L), the case which identifies the location or spatial orientation of the state or action identified by the verb. Objective (0), the semantically most neutral case, the case of anything representable by a noun whose role in the action or state identified by the verb...
Pàgina 160 - The case notions comprise a set of universal, presumably innate, concepts which identify certain types of judgments human beings are capable of making about the events that are going on around them, judgments about such matters as who did it, who it happened to, and what got changed.
Pàgina 158 - In my earlier paper (Fillmore, 1966) I pointed out that no semantically constant value is associated with the notion 'subject of (unless it is possible to make sense of the expression 'the thing being talked about...
Pàgina 160 - Agentive (A): the case of the typically animate perceived instigator of the action identified by the verb. Instrumental (I): the case of the inanimate force or object causally involved in the action or state identified by the verb.
Pàgina 160 - Objective (O), the semantically most neutral case, the case of anything representable by a noun whose role in the action or state identified by the verb is identified by the semantic interpretation of the verb itself; conceivably the concept should be limited to things which are affected by the action or stale identified by the verb.
Pàgina 208 - The subject is the primary which is most intimately connected with the verb (predicate) in the form which it actually has in the sentence with which we are concerned; thus Tom is the subject in (1) Tom beats John', but not in (2) 'John is beaten by Tom', though both sentences indicate the same action on the part of Tom ; in the latter sentence John is the subject, because he is the person most intimately connected with the verb beat in the actual form employed: is beaten. We can thus find out the...
Pàgina 167 - The cases identify the roles which the entities serve in the predication, these roles taken from a repertory defined once and for all for human languages and including that of the instigator of an action, that of the experiencer of a psychological event, that of an object which undergoes a change or movement, that of the location of an event, and so on.
Pàgina 160 - Dative (D), the case of the animate being affected by the state or action identified by the verb. Factitive (F), the case of the object or being resulting from the action or state identified by the verb, or understood as part of the meaning of the verb.
Pàgina 167 - The cases exist in a hierarchy, and this hierarchy serves to guide the operation of certain syntactic processes, in particular that of subject selection. It figures in subject selection by determining which noun-phrase is to become the subject of the sentence in the "unmarked

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