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Ergativity : Emerging Issues (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory) (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory) by PRANAV ANAND, ANDREW NEVINS (auth.), ALANA JOHNS, DIANE MASSAM, JUVENAL NDAYIRAGIJE (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This volume presents a collection of papers on the enticing and complex theme of Ergativity. The papers exemplify theoretical depth applied to a wide range of languages, with the majority of papers based on original fieldwork. Ergativity refers to a grammatical pattern in which the logical subject of intransitive clauses and the logical object of transitive clauses share some grammatical features, and in this respect differ from transitive subjects. The shared features are often case and/or agreement, but a variety of other relevant features have also been isolated in the literature. The ergative pattern contrasts with that found in accusative languages where the subject has the same grammatical marking in intransitive and transitive clauses, while the object has different marking. Ergativity provides us with an ideal testing ground for claims about the range and limits of language variation, and about the degree of elasticity in the morphology-syntax interface. However, because an understanding of ergativity rests on an understanding of other difficult grammatical issues such as grammatical relations, transitivity, aspect, person, case, and agreement, a clear and integrated analys

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Author

PRANAV ANAND, ANDREW NEVINS (auth.), ALANA JOHNS, DIANE MASSAM, JUVENAL NDAYIRAGIJE (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781402041877

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Mathematics, Science