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Case Marking in Hindi as the Weaker Language [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Does language dominance modulate knowledge of case marking in Hindi-speaking bilinguals? Hindi is a split ergative language with a rich morphological case system. Subjects of transitive perfective predicates are marked with ergative case (-ne).
Silvina Montrul +3 more
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Ergative diagnostics: temptatio redux [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2003 In the past 20 years, a new class of verbs has seen the light of existence: 'unaccusative' or 'ergative' verbs. These verbs are intransitive, but different from the traditional notion of intransitive to the extent that their subject valency behaves like ...
Werner Abraham
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Ergative Markers in Taleshi Dialect and its Dependency on Past Tense and Aspect [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2022 This present research studies ergativity in the Taleshi dialect. This dialect is spoken in some parts of Guilan and appears in three main different types including Central, Northern, and Southern.
Abdullah ezzat doust +2 more
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The role languages of the North Caucasus: A.E. Kibrik’s idea after 40 years [PDF]
Rhema. Рема, 2021 In the paper, we present new material to evaluate the theoretical assumptions and basic claims of the idea of “role languages” which was put forward in the linguistic typology about 1980 by William Foley, Robert Van Valin and Aleksandr E. Kibrik.
Ya.G. Testelets
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Typology of ergativity and grammatical asymmetries in Daghestanian [PDF]
Rhema. Рема, 2021 The paper proposes a parametric analysis of grammatical asymmetries in Daghestanian languages. In this linguistic family, morphological ergativity is accompanied by non-consistent grammatical asymmentries exhibited by various syntactic operations.
E.A. Lyutikova
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Heritage grammars as checkpoints in acquisition: A Dependent Case Theoretic account
Glossa, 2023 This paper investigates split ergativity in Turkish-dominant heritage speakers of Kurmanji. We show that the Dependent Case Theory (Marantz 1991; Baker 2015) accounts for the variation in case patterns across the baseline and heritage varieties.
Metin Bağrıaçık +2 more
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Verb Conjugation in Ardalani (Sanandaji) Dialect of Kurdish [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2023 Ardalani dialect belonging to the central group of Kurdish dialects, is mainly spoken in Sanandaj and its suburbs. The word “Ardalani” is derived from the name of Ardalan family who had ruled over the city. The dialect is also known as “Sanandaji (Sene’i)
Mohammad Motallebi, Yadollah Pashabadi
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On noncausal/causal alternations in Tima (Nuba Mountains, Sudan)
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 Tima, a language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, uses three derivation markers (with various allomorphs) to either increase or decrease the valency of the verb. Middle voice and antipassive marking are used to reduce the valency. Causative marking
Gertrud Schneider-Blum
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Hacia una explicación de la ergatividad
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2001 In Part I, I present the problem of Ergativity related to the function of subject of transitive verbs: examples from Basque, Tcherkess and Lezguian. In Part II, I explain the kind of ergativity to be analysed. I remember (Part III) that the Ergativity is
Karmele Rotaetxe
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Extended ergativity in Bumthang [PDF]
, 2019 This paper addresses ergativity in Bumthang. In 2016, Donohue & Donohue reported on the variable use of the ergative case marker in Bumthang transitive clauses.
Donohue, Cathryn, Donohue, Mark
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