Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
Description
This volume considers and examines some of the phenomena that have led languages to be considered 'ergative'. Languages considered 'ergative' have only been sparsely studied, and many fundamental questions in their analysis seem at best incompletely answered. This volume fills that void by focusing on some of the basic issues: when ergativity should be analysed as syntactic or morphological; whether languages can be divided into two classes of syntactically and morphologically ergative languages, and if so where the division should be drawn; and whether ergative argument...
ISBN(s)
1575860376, 9781575860374
