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Split Ergativity in the Nêlêmwâ Language

1997
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Split Ergativity is not about Ergativity

2017
AbstractThis chapter argues that split ergativity is epiphenomenal, and that the factors which trigger its appearance are not limited to ergative systems in the first place. In both aspectual and person splits, the split is the result of a bifurcation of the clause into two distinct case/agreement domains, which renders the clause structurally ...
Jessica Coon, Omer Preminger
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Split Ergativity in Hurrian

Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie, 2008
A shared feature among ergative languages is that none are completely ergative in both morphology and syntax. In some facet of the language there is a split where the language no longer functions along ergative lines but follows a different system, often times nominative-accusative. Hurrian is no exception to the rule.
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A note on split ergativity in Burushaski

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1982
In his pioneer work on the Burushaski language, Lorimer (1935a:64) noted the existence of what has been later described as an ergative construction: the subject of a transitive verb is in the ergative case (a special case, usually marked by the suffix-e) while the subject of inttransitive verbs, as well as the object of transitive verbs, are in the ...
Étienne Tiffou, Yves-Charles Morin
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The Split Verb as a Source of Morphological Ergativity

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2006
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The Origin of NP Split Ergativity

Language, 1990
The Anatolian branch of Indo-European is characterized by a split-ergative case-marking system in which neuters inflect ergatively and common-gender nouns inflect accusatively; its ergative case originated via the reanalysis of an unproductive neuter instrumental marker in null-subject transitive clauses.
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Parameterizing split ergativity in Mayan

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to explain the variation of Case alignment in the accusative side of the ergative split of Kaqchikel, Chol and Q’anjob’al (Mayan). In particular, I will address contrastive alignments found in their accusative side. In the accusative side of Kaqchikel, the intransitive subject and the transitive subject alike are cross ...
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The Structural Source of Split Ergativity and Ergative Case in Georgian

2017
AbstractOn the basis of the study of split ergativity in Georgian, this chapter defends a simple principle according to which the difference between a nominative and an ergative behaviour of the same language, and possibly across languages, consists in the capacity of the transitive subject to be theta-licensed, and by consequence case-licensed, in a ...
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An interpretation of Split Ergativity and Related Patterns

Language, 1981
Nominative/absolutive case and verb agreement are, in many languages, indicators of a category which is here called VIEWPOINT: the perspective from which the speaker describes the event. The order of NP constituents in a sentence encodes ATTENTION FLOW, which is the order in which the speaker expects the hearer to attend to them.
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Split Ergativity and Word Order in Ch'orti'

International Journal of American Linguistics, 1994
L'A. decrit les modeles generalement observes de l'ergativite/ergativite eclatee en relation avec la presentation du cas, du temps/aspect, du topic, du type d'information ancien vs. nouveau. Il examine ensuite la maniere dont se realisent ces modeles au niveau de l'ordre des mots dans des phrases transitives et intransitives en ch'orti' (langue maya du
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