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Argument Marking in Ditransitive Alignment Types
Linguistic Discovery, 2005 This paper discusses the patterns of case-marking/adpositional marking and indexing of ditransitive clauses in the world's languages, i.e. clauses with an Agent, a Recipient and a Theme argument. It distinguishes three major alignment types, indirective,
Martin Haspelmath
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Ergative is not inherent: Evidence from *ABA in suppletion and syncretism
Glossa, 2019 I show that case syncretism obeys the same *ABA restriction previously observed in case-sensitive suppletion: no Vocabulary-Insertion rule can apply to both an inherent case and an unmarked core case (nominative/absolutive) without also applying to ...
Stanislao Zompi
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Linguistic Discovery, 2002 Agreement in Itelmen is represented by means of both prefixes and suffixes. While the prefixes reference subjects (of both transitive and intransitive verbs), the suffixal agreement morphemes on a given verb may reference the subject, the object, or an ...
Jonathan David Bobaljik, Susi Wurmbrand
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The Ergative System in Balochi from a Typological Perspective [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2011 For the Western Iranian languages the transition from the Old Iranian to the Middle-Iranian period is characterised by – among other things – the loss of word-final syllables. This loss had a far-reaching impact on the nominal and verbal systems since it
Agnes Korn
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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2001 This article analyzes Basque irudi (= 'seem') verbs within a generative framework and proposes that the ergative pattern displayed by this class of verbs arises because of the inherent lexical feature [-absolutive}.
Xabier Artiagoitia
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A Minimalist Analysis of Ergative Verbs in Yoruba
LingualExtant works on Yorùbá have identified some other different sub-classes of verbs in the language, based their classifications on functional, structural and semantic properties.
Emmanuel Omoniyi OLANREWAJU
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Argument movement in the Tiv language
Lingue e Linguaggi, 2013 This paper investigates the mechanism of argument movement in the derivation of grammatical Tiv construction. It examines Tiv as a syntactically ergative language and how ergative case is valued as well as the feature computation of T in ergative ...
O. Taiwo, M. Angitso
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Combining PTEN protein assessment and transcriptomic profiling of prostate tumors, we uncovered a network enriched in senescence and extracellular matrix (ECM) programs associated with PTEN loss and conserved in a mouse model. We show that PTEN‐deficient cells trigger paracrine remodeling of the surrounding stroma and this information could help ...
Ivana Rondon‐Lorefice +16 more
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Typology of case alignments in NENA dialects
RiCognizioni, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze different alignment types attested in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects. NENA dialects can be divided into three alignment types according to their degree of ergativity: Split-S, Dynamic ...
Alessandra Barotto
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Passivization in Taleshi dialect (of Sehsar) [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2019 This article surveys passivization in Taleshi dialect. This dialect is common in some areas of the Guilan province. This dialect, i.e Taleshi dialect, is divided into three different branches which are called central, northern and southern Taleshi ...
Abdullah Ezzat doust +2 more
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