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Ergativity and the active-stative typology in Loma
Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 Ergativity would seem to be non-existant or at least quite rare in Africa. This lack, however, may be related to another continent-wide areal phenomenon: there is a paucity of morphological NP case marking according to either ergative or accusative ...
Noel Rude
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The rise of ergativity in Hindi: assessing the role of grammaticalization [PDF]
, 2009 This article investigates the origins and development of the ergative patterning in Hindi. Following traditional Indo-Aryan scholarship, two evolutions are discerned: (i) the reanalysis of a passive as an ergative construction, and (ii) the development ...
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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Ipotesi su problemi di genere, numero ed ergatività in eteo
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2014 This paper briefly presents hypotheses about gender, number and ergativity in Hittite. Terminological problems about ‘gender’ in Hittite will be sketched in the first part.
Alfredo Rizza
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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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Existential unaccusativity and new discourse referents
Glossa, 2018 It is well-known that new information strongly disprefers subject position in English (Horn 1986; Prince 1981; 1992; Beaver et al., 2005), even though English allows indefinite subjects. English is therefore seen as one of the many languages that adheres
Patricia Irwin
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, 2014 Citation: 'erg' in the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed.; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. 10.1351/goldbook.E02193 • License: The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International for individual terms.
Matthew Chojnacki, Ákos Kereszturi
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Case/agreement matching: Evidence for a cognitive bias
Glossa, 2018 In an artificial language experiment, participants were taught two different artificial languages consisting of English content words and novel morphological marking.
Albertyna Paciorek +2 more
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Ergativity and depth of analysis [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, I argue that “depth of analysis” does not deserve the prestige that it is sometimes given in general linguistics. While language description should certainly be as detailed as possible, general linguistics must rely on worldwide comparison
Haspelmath, M.
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Grammatical Relations and Grammatical Categories in Malay; the Indonesian Prefix MeN- Revisited [PDF]
, 2015 The lexical roots of Malay are flexible with regard to their grammatical categories, which presents a problem in providing grammatical evidence for their category determination.
Tjia, J. (Johnny)
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Unergatives are different: Two types of transitivity in Samoan
Glossa, 2018 This paper provides arguments in favour of a non-unified treatment of transitive and unergative verbs, based upon the patterning of unergative constructions in the ergative-absolutive language Samoan. Building upon a proposal by Massam (2009; to appear),
Rebecca Tollan
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