a cross-linguistic analysis of impersonal constructions
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extended abstract 1. introduction the diversity of impersonal constructions and the different approaches used in studying them have caused different and sometimes contradictory positions about their classification and the explanation of grammatical and semantic roles of their components. this article reveals the necessity of studying them with a new approach which pursues a common basis covering all the possible sorts of impersonal constructions. in the present research the traditional approaches toward studying these constructions, i.e., functional and structural ones, have been conflated and have made a new method in handling the issue. this research deals with the constructions from a perspective that emphasizes subject and its properties. in doing so, first, based on malchukov and ogawa (2011), a series of features which is regarded as functional properties of subject prototype is selected (definiteness, topicality, agentivity, referentiality) from keenan's (1976) viewpoint. following the idea that any reduction in functional features is reflected in formal appearance of sentences and leads them toward impersonality, the research probes data from different languages and presents a new categorization of impersonal constructions in persian cross-linguistically.
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زبان شناسی و گویش های خراسانجلد ۸، شماره ۱۴، صفحات ۷۷-۰
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