Elizabeth O'Dowd

List of John Benjamins publications for which Elizabeth O'Dowd plays a role.

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O'Dowd, Elizabeth 1990 Discourse Pressure, Genre and Grammatical Alignment — After Du Bois Studies in Language 14:2, pp. 365–403 | Article
This study adds a genre dimension to the findings of Du Bois (1987) concerning the discourse basis of grammatical patterns. Although Du Bois' and other studies have ascertained that a pressure toward ergative patterning exists even in nominative-accusative languages, I hypothesized that this… read more