Deconstructing Ergativity: Two Types of Ergative Languages and Their Features
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Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of a transitive verb are expressed the same way, and differently from the object of a transitive. In ergative languages, the subject of an intransitive and the object of a transitive appear in the same form, the absolutive, and the transitive subject has a special, ergative, form. Ergative...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0190256591
ISBN13:9780190256593
Release Date:May 2016
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:410 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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