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Ergativity:

Towards a Theory of Grammatical Relations
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Frans Plank
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Acad. Press, 1979 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 569 pages

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Contents

Shunting on to Ergative or Accusative
39
Ergativity and the Constitution of Grammatical Relations
45
Canonical Ergativity and Daghestan Languages
61
Copyright

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2nd person 3rd person absolutive actants active affixes agreement markers animacy antipassive antipassive clause aorist basic Basque case-marking Chukchee Cikobava co-referential Comrie correlation deletion derived dialects direct object Dyirbal Enga English ergative clause ergative construction ergative languages ergative marker ergative system Eskimo example expressed function genitive grammatical relations grammatical subject guages Hurrian indicate intransitive jazyke Kartvelian Kartvelian languages Klimov linguistic marked Mayan Mayan languages meaning Megrelian morpheme morphological nom.sg nominative nominative-accusative noun phrase Pama-Nyungan languages Papuan languages paradigm participant passive patient pattern perfective perfective aspect person singular personal pronouns possessive possessor predicate prefix pronominal properties reference relational grammar relativization second person semantic roles SentC split split ergativity structure suffix Sumerian syntactic syntax tense third person tive Tongan topic transitive sentences transitive subject transitive verb typological unmarked Urartian verb agreement verb-agreement verbal complex word order

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TitleErgativity: Towards a Theory of Grammatical Relations
EditorFrans Plank
Editionillustrated
PublisherAcad. Press, 1979
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized29 Apr 2008
ISBN0125581505, 9780125581509
Length569 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation
  
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