Role and Reference Grammar

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List of Dissertations for downloading:

Abdoulaye, Mahamane L. (1992). Aspects of Hausa Morphosyntax in Role and Reference Grammar
Allen, Janet L. (2011). A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis of Kankanaey.
Amazaki, Osamu (2005). A functional analysis of numeral quantifier constructions in Japanese.
Belloro, Valeria A. (2007). Spanish Clitic Doubling: A Study of the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface.
Eschenberg, Ardis (2005). The article system of Umoⁿhoⁿ.
González Vergara Carlos (Madrid, 2006). Las construcciones no reflexivas con «se». Una propuesta desde la Gramática del Papel y la Referencia.
Guerrero-Valenzuela, Lilian Graciela - The syntax-semantic interface in Yaqui complex constructions, a Role and Reference Grammar Analysis. .zip file; .sit file.
Han, Jeonghan (1999). Grammatical Codings of Information Structure in Korean: A Role and Reference Grammar Account. (Download PDF's of Chapters: 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Ignatova , Anelia Stefanova (2008). A functional approach to Bulgarian verbal aspect and reduplication of clitics within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar.
Johnson, Heidi Anna (2000) A Grammar of San Miguel Chimalapa Zoque. Zip archive, Apple archive.
Kemmerer, David (1996). An Investigation of Syntactic Comprehension Deficits in Parkinson's Disease. (Download PDF's on Sections: 1, 2, 3a, 3b, 3c, 4, and also Figures, Tables, and References)
King, Deborah (2010). Voice and valence-altering operations in Falam Chin: A Role and Reference Grammar approach.
LaPolla, Randy J. (1990) Grammatical Relations in Chinese: Synchronic and Diachronic Considerations.
Miura, Hidematsu (2008) Grammatical relations, reflexives and pseudo- raising in Japanese.
Nakamura, Wataru (1997). A Constraint Based Typology of Case Systems. (Download PDF Table of Contents and Chapters 1-3, 7)
Ohori, Toshio (1992) Diachrony in Clause Linkage and Related Issues.
Palmovic, Marijan (Univ. of Zagreb, 2007). Electrophysiological Evidence for Sentence Comprehension: A Comparison of Adult, Normal Developing Children and Children with Specific Language Impairment.
Park, Ki-Seong (1995). The Semantics and Pragmatics of Case Marking in Korean: A Role and Reference Grammar Account.
Emma L. Pavey (2004). The English it-cleft construction: A Role and Reference Grammar analysis.
Rezai, Vali (2003). A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis of Simple Sentences in Farsi (Modern Persian). Zip archive, Apple archive.
Saclot, Maureen Joy (2011). Event structure in Tagalog.
Shimojo, Mitsuaki (1995). Focus Structure and Morphosyntax in Japanese: Wa and Ga and Word Order Flexibility.
Toratani, Kyoko (2002). The morphoyntax and the logical structures of compound verbs in Japanese. (Download parts I, II, III)
Vihman, Virve-Anneli (2004). Valency Reduction in Estonian.
Joy Wu (2006). Verb classification, case marking and grammatical relations in Amis.
Yang, Byong-Seon (1994). Morphosyntactic Phenomena of Korean in Role and Reference Grammar: Psych-Verb Constructions, Inflectional Verb Morphemes, Complex Sentences, and Relative Clauses.

List of Masters Theses for downloading

Belloro, Valeria (2004). A Role and Reference Grammar Account of Third-Person Clitic Clusters in Spanish.
Dahm-Draksic, Teresa (1997). A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis of Croatian Case Marking
Eschenberg, Ardis (1999). Focus Structure in Polish.
Imai, Shingo (1998). Logical Structures and Case Markings in Japanese.
Kretzschmar, Franziska (U Marburg, 2006). Zum expletiven und pronominalen es im Deutschen. Syntaktische, semantische und varietätenspezifische Aspekte.
Alcir Falcão Martins (2011). The Inflected Infinitive in Brazilian Portuguese.
David Minger (2002). An Analysis of Grammatical Relations and Case Marking in Icelandic.
Farhad Moezzipour (2010). Cleft Constructions in Persian: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis.
Paris, Luis (1999). The Spanish Causative Construction "Hacer-Infinitive": A Role and Reference Grammar Description
Park, Ki-seong (1993). Korean Causatives in Role and Reference Grammar.
Rangkupan, Suda (1997). An Investigation of hay complex constructions in Thai.
Rodionova, Elena (2001). Word Order and Information Structure in Russian Syntax.
Arne Ruhnau (2011). Interpretation of the Topological Field Model of the German clause in Role and Reference Grammar.
Salem, Yasser (2009). A generic framework for Arabic to English machine translation of simplex sentences using the Role and Reference Grammar linguistic model.
Samsel, J. (1992). A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis of Georgian Morphosyntax.
Toratani, Kiyoko (1997). Typology of Split-Intransitivity: Lexical Aspect and the Unaccusative Hypothesis in Japanese.

List of Papers for downloading

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Delia Bentley (University of Manchester, England) (2004). 'Ne'-cliticization and split intransitivity.
Bornkessel, Ina, Schlesewsky, Matthias, and Robert Van Valin (Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognition and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, and University at Buffalo) (2004). Syntactic templates and linking mechanisms: A new approach to grammatical function asymmetries.
Michael Boutin (SIL, Malaysia) (2004). Locative predicates in Bonggi.
Francisco Cortés Rodrígues and Dolores Torres Medina (2002). Lexical templates and linking rules for some Old English verbs of motion.
Brian Dillon (2004). The Irish language in RRG: An overview.
Jacques, Francois, ed. (2003). Proceedings of the Caen colloquium on RRG, Cahiers du CRISCO 13.
Carlos González Vergara (2006). LA GRAMÁTICA DEL PAPEL Y LA REFERENCIA: UNA APROXIMACIÓN AL MODELO.
Marta Ma. González Orta (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain) (2002). Linking syntax and semantics in simple and complex sentences within the Old English domain of speech.
Anne Jensen (University of Copenhagen)(2000). Sentence intertwining in Danish - a challenge to the RRG account?
Ranko Matasovic (2001). Adjective phrases.
Toshio Ohori (University of Tokyo) (2001). Some thoughts on a new systematization of interclausal semantic relations.
Emma Pavey (2001). Information Structure in Acadian French.
Rodrigo Romero Méndez (2007) . Spanish Light Verb Constructions: co-predication with syntactically formed complex predicates.
Yasser Salem & Brian Nolan (2009). UNIARAB: A Universal Machine Translator System for Arabic Based on Role and Reference Grammar.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (1980). Meaning and interpretation.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (1981). Grammatical relations in ergative languages.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (1990). Functionalism, anaphora and syntax.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (1994). Extraction Restrictions, Competing Theories and the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (1998). The acquisition of WH-Questions and the Mechanisms of Language Acquisition.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (1998). Focus Structure or Abstract Syntax? A Role and Reference Grammar Account of some Abstract Syntactic Phenomena.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (1999). Generalized Semantic Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (1999). Linguistic Diversity and Theoretical Assumptions.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (1999). A Typology of the Interaction of Focus Structure and Syntax.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2000). The acquisition of complex sentences: A case study in the role of theory in the study of language development.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2001). Minimalism and explanation.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2002). Semantic macroroles in Role and Reference Grammar.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2004). Lexical representation, co-composition, and linking syntax and semantics.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2006). Semantic macroroles and language processing.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2007). The Role and Reference Grammar analysis of three-place predicates.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2009). Some Issues in the Linking between Syntax and Semantics in Relative Clauses.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2010). Head-marking languages and linguistic theory.

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2010). Linguistics past and present: A view from the Rhine.

Klaus & Charlotte Wedekind (SIL), Abuzaynab Musa (Asmara) (2002). RRG universal verb classes vs. Beja verb classifications based on morphologies and textual functions.

Joy Wu (2007). An introduction to RRG (in Mandarin Chinese).

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