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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Johns, Alana (Editor ), Massam, Diane (Editor ), Ndayiragije, Juvenal (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 65
Temas:
Linguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general-Syntax.
Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar.
Syntax.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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