Ergativity Emerging Issues
This volume presents a collection of papers on the enticing and complex theme of Ergativity. The papers exemplify theoretical depth applied to a wide range of languages, with the majority of papers based on original fieldwork. Ergativity refers to a grammatical pattern in which the logical subject o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2006, 2006
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2006 |
| Series: | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part-I The Cases
- The Locus of Ergative Case Assignment: Evidence from Scope
- Neither Absolutive nor Ergative is Nominative or Accusative
- Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case Checking
- Syntactic Ergativity in Tongan
- ll-Splits
- A Parametric Syntax of Aspectually Conditioned Split-Ergativity
- Split Absolutive
- Deriving Split Ergativity in the Progressive
- On 'Ergativity' in Halkomelem Salish
- Tree-Geometric Relational Hierarchies and Nuumiipuutímt (Nez Perce) Case
- lll-Antipassive
- Antipassive Morphology and Case Assignment in Inuktitut
- The Ergativity Parameter: A View from Antipassive
- Ergativity and Change in Inuktitut
- IV -The Range of Ergativity
- Ergativity in Austronesian Languages
- The Split Verb as a Source of Morphological Ergativity