 “A language is said to show ergative characteristics if intransitive subject is treated in the same manner as transitive object, and differently from transitive subject.…

Lingua 32,239-253.0 North-Holland Publishing Company 1973 THE ERGATIVE: VARIATIONS ON A THEME Bernard COMRIE Kingâs sbllege, Cambridge, Grtx t Britain Recciwd Not.ember…

To appear in Ergativity, Kluwer, ed. Johns, Massam, Ndayiragije The Locus of Ergative Case Assignment: Evidence from Scope Pranav Anand & Andrew Nevins 1. Is the Ergative…

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Constructions at Work: Chapter 9 Cross-linguistic generalization in argument realization 1.0. Background Widespread claims that linking rules are universal. Pinker (1989)…

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The MIC Approach to Word-Order Hélène WLODARCZYK Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4) Centre for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (CELTA) What is word order ? “…the…