agent

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Sources

• WALES 1989 15

  WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

• NASH 1968 10

  NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

• LYONS 1971 296

  LYONS, John. (1971) Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: University Press. 

• CHOMSKY 1981 35 (= agent-of-action)

  CHOMSKY, Noam. (1981) Lectures on Government and Binding. Dordrecht : Foris Publications.

• MATTHEWS 1981 105-106

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1981) Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• HALLIDAY 1994 164 (Agent)

  HALLIDAY, M.A.K. (1994) An Introduction to Functional Grammar (Second Edition). London: Edward Arnold. 

• DIK 1978 37 (Agent [Ag])

  DIK, Simon C. (1978) Functional Grammar. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.

• DIK I 1997 118 (Agent [Ag])

  DIK, Simon C. (1997) The Theory of Functional Grammar, Part 1, 2nd edition: The Structure of the Clause. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• PALMATIER 1972 7

  PALMATIER, Robert A. (1972) A Glossary for English Transformational Grammar. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

• DIXON 1994 7-8

  DIXON, R.M.W. (1994) Ergativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• DIJK 1980 137

  DIJK, Teun A. van. (1980) Macrostructures: An Interdisciplinary Study of Global Structures in Discourse, Interaction, and Cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

• HAEGEMAN 1991 169 (AGENT)

  HAEGEMAN, Liliane. (1991) Introduction to Government and Binding Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

• FILLMORE 1968 28 (Agent)

  FILLMORE, Charles J. (1968) "The Case for Case," in Bach & Harms (eds.), Universals in Linguistic Theory. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1-88.

• CULIOLI 1995[trans.] 149

  CULIOLI, Antoine. (1995 [trans.]) Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory. Trans. by John T. Stoneham. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• KUNO 1987 6

  KUNO, Susumu. (1987) Functional Syntax: Anaphora, Discourse & Empathy. Chicago: University Press.

• PEI & GAYNOR 1954 8 (also "agent-noun" = "agential noun")

  PEI, Mario A. & GAYNOR, Frank. (1954) A Dictionary of Linguistics. New York : Philosophical Library.

• GIVON 1984 88-89, 126

  GIVON, Talmy. (1984) Syntax: A Functional-Typological Introduction, Vols. I & II. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• BYBEE etal. 1994 133, 176-179 (agent-oriented modality)

  BYBEE, Joan, PERKINS, Revere & PAGLIUCA William (1994) The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Chicago : Univ. of Chicago.

• MATTHEWS 1997 11

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• RICHARDS etal. 1992 11

  RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT, J. & WEBER, H. (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.

• MARTIN & RINGHAM 2006 25

  MARTIN, Bronwen & RINGHAM, Felizitas. (2006) Key Terms in Semiotics. London: Continuum.

• KROEGER 2005 54, 341

  KROEGER, Paul R. (2005) Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• CRYSTAL 2003 16 (also "counter-agent")

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.

• FINCH 2000 94, 120, 132 (also "agent deletion")

  FINCH, Geoffrey. (2000) Linguistic Terms and Concepts. New York: St. Martin's Press.