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Subjects: Grammatical Relations, Grammatical Functions And Functional Categories, Ileana Paul Dec 2009

Subjects: Grammatical Relations, Grammatical Functions And Functional Categories, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

This paper presents an overview of how the notion of “subject” has been defined in linguistic theory. Although the term developed out of Artistotelian logic, the use has been narrowed to refer to the grammatical relation (or function). Over the past fifty years, the definition of subject and its universality has been the source of much debate. Broadly Chomskian approaches claim that grammatical relations such as subject are not primitives of the grammar and can be derived from phrase structure. As such, testing for the subject involves constituency tests. Other approaches (Relational Grammar, Lexical-Function Grammar) posit grammatical relations as primitives …


Introduction To Hispanic Linguistics, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, D. Heap, A-T. Pérez-Leroux Dec 2009

Introduction To Hispanic Linguistics, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, D. Heap, A-T. Pérez-Leroux

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Teaching Award 2009-2010, Ewelina Barski Dec 2009

Teaching Award 2009-2010, Ewelina Barski

Ewelina Barski, PhD

Teaching Honour Roll Certificate