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Competitive Entertainment: Implications of the NFL Lockout Litigation for Sports, Theatre, Music, and Video Entertainment
Grammatical relations in Mapudungun
This article presents the grammatical relations (GRs) of Central Mapudungun
(unclassified, Chile and Argentina) as explored in terms of argument selection as
instantiated by different constructions (i.e., the coding and behavioral properties
usually discussed in the literature on alignment). The language emerges
as having an essentially head-marking clausal morphosyntax that contrasts
“subjects”, primary and secondary “objects,” and adjuncts, with two important
provisos. These GRs differ from the run-of-the-mill notions due to the difference
between direct and inverse transitive clauses (which responds to a person- and
topicality-based hierarchy of participants and allows for agentive or patientive
subjects and patientive or agentive primary objects, respectively), and to some
apparent heterogeneity shown across constructions by the two most prominent
GRs