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Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-06-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Although there is only one ergative language in Europe (Basque), perhaps one-quarter of the world's languages show ergative properties, and pose considerable di
Language: en
Pages: 306
Pages: 306
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-29 - Publisher: Penguin Books
From language creator David J. Peterson comes a creative gui de to language constructio, offering an overview of language creation, covering its history from To
Language: en
Pages: 417
Pages: 417
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subjec
Language: en
Pages: 388
Pages: 388
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-02-05 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
The overarching theme of this volume is the formal expression of the range and limits of ergativity. The book contains cutting-edge theoretical papers by top au
Language: en
Pages: 1297
Pages: 1297
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
This volume examines the phenomenon of ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the ex