Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Roles and relations; 3. Accusative, ergative and agentive systems; 4. Syntactic relations; 5. Passive; 6. Passive: related and problematic issues; 7. Antipassive; 8. Topic and inverse systems; 9. Causatives; Glossary of terms; References and citations index; Language index; General index.

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A typological survey of Subject, Object and related grammatical concepts in the languages of the world.

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'A valuable source of information and examples...amply illustrated with examples of languages ... a comprehensive and systematic presentation'. International Review of Applied Linguistics