Secondary predication and instrumental case in Russian
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چکیده
occur in many languages. The phenomenon in English was called secondary predica t ion . The intuitive understanding of (1) seems clear, but already in English it is not clear which phenomena are to be called secondary predication in general. Things get even more difficult when other languages are considered. The problem is not merely one of the term extension. The emphasis is on the relation between systematic devices in or across languages and their accidental aspects. The problem has some relevance to typological studies: which patterns does language X use which are systematically marked by its grammar?
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