A Syntactic Analysis of Ergative Case Marking in some Iranian Languages: A minimalist View [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2019 Tatic-type languages are among west Iranian languages divided into four main groups: northern Tatic, central Tatic, southern Tatic and Taleshi group (Stilo, 1981, p. 139).
Ifa Shafai, Mohammad Dabirmoghaddam
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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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Light Verbs and Split Ergativity in the Western Cholan Languages
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2006 This paper is a discussion of a complex verbal construction in Western Cholan languages and how this construction interacts with the split ergative systems found in these languages. The Cholan languages all display split-ergative systems based on aspect.
Montgomery-Anderson, Brad
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Nominalizations and the structure of progressives in Chuj Mayan
Glossa, 2017 This paper investigates the structure of progressives and nominalizations in Chuj, an understudied Mayan language of Guatemala. Like many other Mayan languages, Chuj shows aspect-based split ergativity: the otherwise ergative head-marking pattern in the ...
Elizabeth Carolan, Jessica Coon
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Debunking the I above YOU illusion
Liames, 2011 There is a long tradition in placing I above YOU in linguistics and grammar. In our Western grammatical terminology, I is the “first person”. In the universal scale of agentivity, or “universal person hierarchy”, I is placed before YOU.
Marie-Odile Junker
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No evidence for culmination inferences based on Hindi ergative marking
Glossa PsycholinguisticsPrediction, both on the syntactic and the semantic level, is a central process in language comprehension. For instance, people predict aspects of event structure based on morphosyntactic markers on verbs: hearing has peeled directs one's attention ...
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Some notes on split ergativity in Hittite [PDF]
Linguistic Frontiers, 2019 Abstract The Hittite grammar is characterized by a morphosyntactic split that affects the behaviour of the inflectional classes of Noun phrases (DPs). While a singular neuter transitive subject is marked by /-anza/suffix, commons DPs end with an /-š/mark. In addition, intransitive neuter subjects and neuter objects pattern in the same
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Tipología del orden de los constituyentes en la lengua bribri
Letras, 2013 Es una descripción de la tipología del orden de los constituyentes en la lengua bribri, de acuerdo con la teoría de los universales lingüísticos (Greenberg) y la teoría funcionalista (Payne). La primera propuesta se asocia con las proposiciones acerca de
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When “passives” involve no A-movement: Rethinking Indonesian-type passives via East Javanese
GlossaA passive-like construction in Javanese (Austronesian) highlights how an object topicalization construction can be formally indistinguishable from a passive in languages lacking morphological case.
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Children learn ergative case marking in Hindi using statistical preemption and clause-level semantics (intentionality): evidence from acceptability judgment and elicited production studies with children and adults. [PDF]
Open Res Eur, 2023 Maitreyee R +7 more
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