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Ergativity in Amazonia / edited by Spike Gildea, Francesc Queixalós.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Typological studies in language ; v. 89.
- Typological studies in language
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Ergative constructions.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Languages.
- Indians of South America.
- Language and languages.
- Amazon River Region.
- Physical Description:
- 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2010]
- Contents:
- Manifestations of ergativity in Amazonia / Francesc Queixalós and Spike Gildea
- PART I. Well-established systems: Morphological ergativity: Ergativity in the Mayoruna branch of the Panoan family / David W. Fleck
- Ergativity in Shipibo-Konibo, a Panoan language of the Ucayali / Pilar M. Valenzuela
- How ergative is Cavineña? / Antoine Guillaume
- The ergativity effect in Kuikuro (Southern Carib, Brazil) / Bruna Franchetto
- Nominative-absolutive: Counter-universal split ergativity in Jê and Cariban / Spike Gildea and Flávia de Castro Alves
- PART II. Recent diachronic innovations: Syntactic ergativity: Ergativity in Trumai / Raquel Guirardello-Damian
- Grammatical relations in Katukina-Kanamari / Francesc Queixalós
- The intransitive basis of Movima clause structure / Katharina Haude.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789027206701
- 9027206708
- 9789027288509
- 902728850X
- OCLC:
- 463855922
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