Role and Reference Grammar

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RRG Conferences 1999-2015.
RRG 09 Handouts and slides.
Special issue of Language and Linguistics devoted to RRG (2007).
Jens Fleischhauer, Anja Latrouite & Rainer Osswald (eds.). 2016. Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics
Interface.
Amele RRG Grammatical Sketch (John R. Roberts)
RRG draw (Elizabeth Guest, Leeds Metropolitan University)

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.
Arslan, Ilyas (2016). Verbfunktionalitt und Ergativitt in der Zaza-Sprache.
Belloro, Valeria A. (2007). Spanish Clitic Doubling: A Study of the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface.
Eschenberg, Ardis (2005). The article system of Umonhon.
Fleischhauer, Jens (2016). Degree gradation of verbs.
Gonzlez Vergara Carlos (Madrid, 2006). Las construcciones no reflexivas con se. Una propuesta
desde la Gramtica 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.
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 variettenspezifische Aspekte.
Laskowske, Douglas. (2016) Voice in Bugis: An RRG perspective.
Martins, Alcir Falco (2011). The Inflected Infinitive in Brazilian Portuguese.
Minger, David (2002). An Analysis of Grammatical Relations and Case Marking in Icelandic.
Moezzipour, Farhad (2010). Cleft Constructions in Persian: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis.
Murphy, Isa (2014). The realization of negation in the Syrian Arabic clause, phrase, and word.
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.
Jrgen Bohnemeyer & Robert Van Valin, Jr. 2014. The Macro-Event Property and the Layered
Structure of the Clause.
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 Corts Rodrgues 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 Gonzlez Vergara (2006). LA GRAMTICA DEL PAPEL Y LA REFERENCIA: UNA
APROXIMACIN AL MODELO.
Marta Ma. Gonzlez 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?
Anja Latrouite and Robert Van Valin. (2014). Event existentials in Tagalog: A Role and Reference
Grammar account.
Ranko Matasovic (2001). Adjective phrases.
Dejan Mati, Eric van Gijn & Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2014). Information structure and reference
tracking in complex sentences: An overview.
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 Mndez (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. (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. (2010). Linguistics past and present: A view from the Rhine.
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2012). Some Issues in the Linking between Syntax and Semantics in Relative
Clauses.
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2013). Head-marking languages and linguistic theory.
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2013). Lexical representation, co-composition, and linking syntax and
semantics.
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2014). On the place of information structure in a grammar.
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (2014). An Overview of Information Structure in three Amazonian Languages
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).
Homepage of Robert D. Van Valin Jr.