Ergativity: Towards a Theory of Grammatical RelationsFrans Plank |
Contents
Shunting on to Ergative or Accusative | 39 |
Ergativity and the Constitution of Grammatical Relations | 45 |
Canonical Ergativity and Daghestan Languages | 61 |
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Common terms and phrases
3rd person according accusative actants action active affixes agent agreement agrees antipassive aorist appears aspect basic called case-marking Chukchee clause common Compare complex Comrie consider construction correlation corresponding definite deletion derived dialects direct object discussion distinction ending English ergative construction ergative languages ergative system evidence example expressed fact forms function given grammatical grammatical relations hand identical indicate instance interpretation intransitive subjects killed latter linguistic marked markers meaning morpheme morphological nominative normal noun phrase occur opposition original participant particular passive patient pattern perfective plural position possessive possible predicate prefix present pronouns properties reason reference relations relative respect result role rule seems semantic sentences similar singular split structure suffix suggest syntactic syntax tense third person topic transitive verb typical University verbal