The Oxford handbook of ergativity / edited by Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, and Lisa DeMena Travis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coon, Jessica, editor.

Massam, Diane, editor.

Travis, Lisa deMena, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks in linguistics

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Ergative constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Ergativity

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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text file

Summary:

Examines the phenomenon of ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the exclusion of transitive subjects. It includes theoretical approaches from generative, typological, and functional paradigms, as well as 16 language-specific case studies.

Contents:

Introduction / Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, Lisa Travis

Split ergativity is not about ergativity / Jessica Coon, Omer Preminger

Ergativity and differential case marking / Andrej L. Malchukov

Three-way systems do not exist / Gereon Muller, Daniela Thomas

Antipassive / Maria Polinsky

Remarks on the relation between case-alignment and constituent order / Tarald Taraldsen

Ergativity in nominalization / Artemis Alexiadou

Ergativity and Austronesian-type voice systems / Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Theodore Levin, Coppe van Urk

On the morphosyntactic reflexes of the information structure in the ergative patterning of the Inuit language / Alana Johns, Ivona Kucerova

Ergative constellations in the structure of speech acts / Martina Wiltschko

Grammaticalization of ergative case marking / William McGregor

Ergativity in discourse and grammar / John W. DuBois

Deconstructing Iranian ergativity / Geoffrey Haig

Intransitivity and the development of ergative alignment / Edith Aldridge

Developments into and out of ergativity / Miriam Butt, Ashwini Deo

Ergativity and language change in Austronesian languages / Ritsuko Kikusawa

Lexical category and alignment in Austronesian / Daniel Kaufman

The acquisition of ergativity / Edith Bavin

The role of defaults in the acquisition of Basque ergative and dative morphology / Jennifer Austin

A comparative study of the acquisition of nominative and ergative agreement in European and Mayan languages / Clifton Pye, Barbara Pfeiler

Processing ergativity / Adam Zawiszewski

Experimental approaches to ergative languages / Nicholas Longenbaugh, Maria Polinsky

Parameterizing ergativity / Michelle Sheehan

Correlates of ergativity in Mayan / Judith Aissen

Ergative case in Burushaski / Mark C. Baker

Ergativity in Basque / Ane Berro, Ricardo Etxepare

Hindi/Urdu and related languages / Miriam Butt

Ergativity in Inuktitut / Richard Compton

Ergativity in Nakh-Dagestanian / Diana Forker

Ergativity in Neo-Aramaic / Geoffrey Khan

Ergativity in Africa / Christa Konig

Ergativity in Tibeto-Burman / Shobhana Chelliah

The ergative in Warlpiri / Mary Laughren

Accusative and ergative in Hindi / Anoop Mahajan

Ergative-absolutive patterns in Tongan / Yuko Otsuka

Ergativity across Tsimshianic / Tyler Peterson

What being a syntactically ergative language means for Katukina-Kanamari / Francesc Queixalos

Ergativity in Je languages / Andres Salanova

Interaction of ergativity and information structure in Jaminjung (Australia) / Eva Schultze-Berndt

Alignment and orientation in Kartvelian (South Caucasian) / Kevin Tuite

On inherent and dependent theories of ergative case / Mark C. Baker, Jonathan Bobalijk

The locus of ergative case / Julie Anne Legate

Ergative need not split / Itziar Laka

The structure source of split ergativity and ergative case in Georgian / Lea Nash

Split ergativity in syntax and at morphological spellout / Ellen Woolford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780191802362

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