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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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Processing ergativity in compound light verb constructions: electrophysiological evidence from Hindi [PDF]
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceIntroductionErgativity marks subject arguments as agents of a transitive event and thereby signals verbal transitivity and influences language comprehension.MethodWe report here on an event-related brain potentials (ERP) study in Hindi, in which we ...
Anna Merin Mathew +4 more
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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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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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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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Is There Ergativity in Korean? ―The definition of ergativity and other uses of the term ‘ergative’― [PDF]
HAN-GEUL, 2008 영문 벼리: This paper critically reviews the previous research on ergativity in Korean, in which the concept of ergativity has been applied to Korean morpho-syntax. We have investigated the concept of ergativity from the viewpoint of linguistic typology, and claim that there is no ergativity in Korean.
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The Evolution of Ergativity in Iranian Languages
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2012 This paper presents an attempt to investigate the origins of ergativity in Iranian languages, drawing upon diachronic and synchronic analyses. In so doing, I will trace the development of the ergative structure back to Old and Middle Persian where, it is
Yadgar KARIMI
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Glossa, 2020 This paper provides an account of two related aspects of the past-tense morphosyntax of Shughni (Eastern Iranian): (i) the use of second-position clitics, rather than the verbal suffixes of the present tense, to index past-tense subjects’ φ-features; and
Clinton Parker
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Roots of Ergativity in Africa (and Beyond)
Studies in African Linguistics, 2020 In the literature, it is often assumed that ergative constructions originate in passive constructions. The present contribution explores the likelihood of such a passive-to-ergative analysis for one language (Tima, Niger-Congo, Sudan), showing that this
Antje Casaretto +4 more
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Transitivité de l’action et ses expressions en trumai (langue isolée du Haut Xingú, Brésil)
Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 2013 This article presents a preliminary approach to understanding the complex verbal system of the Trumai language, an isolated language of Upper Xingu (central Brazil).
Aurore Monod Becquelin, Cédric Becquey
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