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This book takes a detailed look at two differing complex predicates in the South Asian language Urdu.

This text asserts that grammatical relations such as subject and object are syntactic notions, and must be identified on the basis of syntactic properties, rather than by semantic roles or discourse functions. It uses data from Tagalog to test the theories on subjecthood that have been put forth.