Studies in ErgativityRobert M. W. Dixon |
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CONTENTS | 1 |
B Levin The middle construction and ergativity | 17 |
T W Larsen The syntactic status of ergativity in Quiché | 33 |
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absolutive accusative languages actant actor Ag=erg antipassive antipassive construction Austronesian languages auxiliary Bezhta Budukh Burushaski case-marking Chukchee Class clause actant clitic Comrie concord coreferent cross-referencing D-structure dative deleted dialect direct object Dixon Dyirbal embedded verb enclitics ergative construction ergative domain ergative languages ergative marking ergative pattern ergative-absolutive Ergativity Hypothesis example focus antipassive function Georgian grammatical relations Hindi inflection intransitive Lahnda lexical argument Linguistics locative main NP main verb marker Mayan Mayan languages morpheme morphologically ergative nominative-accusative noun phrase oblique occur Pama-Nyungan Pama-Nyungan languages paradigm Pashto passive construction patient prefix pronominal pronouns Quiché R. M. W. Dixon referent reflexive Sacapultec second person semantic roles sentence Silverstein Sindhi singular South Asian languages split strategy structure subject position suffix syntactic ergativity syntax Tagalog tenses Text third person topic transitive verb Tsakhur Tsova-Tush typology unmarked verb agreement verb form verbal zero