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Split Ergativity in Syntax and at Morphological Spellout

2017
AbstractIn a split ergative case pattern, not all subjects that could be marked with ergative case are. A language with a split ergative case pattern is called a split ergative language, but linguists disagree as to what other properties qualify a language as split ergative: an ergative case pattern in combination with a nominative-accusative agreement
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Russian Adversity Impersonals and Split Ergativity

2013
Most of the numerous studies on Russian Adversity Impersonals (e.g. lodku uneslo vetrom) focus on the formal make-up of these constructions and/or on their semantics. This article aims at describing Russian Adversity Impersonals from a typological point of view by linking them with ergativity.
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Morphological and phonological sources of split ergative agreement

Lingua, 2007
Abstract A prevalent assumption is that alternations between distinct paradigms of verbal agreement directly reflect the grammatical functions and/or case of the arguments with which the verb agrees. This proves to be too simplistic a view of case and agreement, as shown by the various case/agreement mismatches attested cross-linguistically, and by ...
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An Interpretation of Split Ergativity in Indo-Iranian Languages

Diachronica, 1989
SUMMARY This paper investigates three problems related to the phenomenon of split ergativity in several Indo-Iranian languages. (1) In ergative tenses Pashto and Kashmiri belong to the canonical ergative-absolutive type — irrespective of the definiteness of the nominal P(atient) — while Sindhî and LahndS pattern erga-tively only if P is indefinite ...
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Morphological split ergativity alignment in Pesh, Chibchan

2021
Pesh (Chibchan, Honduras) has until now been described as having a morphologicalnominative-accusative alignment. This paper argues that Pesh displays a bilevel split ergative pattern for morphological alignment. On the first level of the system, Pesh features a split alignment that is conditioned by the way the arguments are expressed.
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Split Ergativity in Cavineña

International Journal of American Linguistics, 1985
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Ergativity and Ergativity Splits

2019
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Split Ergativity in the History of the Ch’olan Branch of the Mayan Language Family

International Journal of American Linguistics, 2006
Danny Law, Stephen Houston
exaly  

Rethinking Split Ergativity In Chol

International Journal of American Linguistics, 2010
Jessica Coon
exaly  

Revisiting “Split Ergativity” in Cavineña

International Journal of American Linguistics, 2006
Antoine Guillaume
exaly