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This book argues that the assumption that grammatical relations are both necessary and universal is an unwarranted generalization. The grammatical relations of subject and object are required in the case of the Indian language of Kannada. Furthermore, the notion of transitivity or transference which forms the basis for postulating grammatical relations does not play the expected central role in all languages: in the case of another Indian language, Manipuri, it is volitionality and transitivity
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- Author
- Darbhe N Shankara Bhat
- Publisher
- World Pub. Co. ; Routledge
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781134923731
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Linguistics, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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