Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Active/Inverse Voice Alternation; 3. Anti-Impersonal Passives; 4. Dative Subject Constructions; 5. Locative Inversion; 6. Ergativity and Its Typological Variation; 7. Double Object Constructions; 8. Object Shift in Japanese; 9. Conclusion and Further Issues; References; Index
Summary
Hiroyuki Ura demonstrates that his theory of multiple feature-checking, an extension of Chomsky's AGR-less checking theory, gives a natural explanation for a wide range of data drawn from a variety of languages in a very consistent way with a limited set of parameters
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-309) and index