Ergativity: Emerging Issues

ISBN-13: 9781402041860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 360 str.

A. Johns; Alana Johns; Diane Massam

Opis

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 authors in the field, who also conduct original field work and bring new data to light. It contains articles that apply the most recent theoretical tools to the area of ergativity, and then explore the issues that emerge. Languages investigated in the text include Basque, Georgian, and Hindi.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"...an important and valuable resource due to two factors: (i) its theoretical import concerning issues related to ergativity, and (ii) data from many endangered languages, often coming from the author's own fieldwork." (Patrycja Jablonska, LinguistList 19.2107)

Spis treści

Part-I The Cases.- The Locus of Ergative Case Assignment: Evidence from Scope.- Neither Absolutive nor Ergative is Nominative or Accusative.- Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case Checking.- Syntactic Ergativity in Tongan.- ll-Splits.- A Parametric Syntax of Aspectually Conditioned Split-Ergativity.- Split Absolutive.- Deriving Split Ergativity in the Progressive.- On 'Ergativity' in Halkomelem Salish.- Tree-Geometric Relational Hierarchies and Nuumiipuutímt (Nez Perce) Case.- lll-Antipassive.- Antipassive Morphology and Case Assignment in Inuktitut.- The Ergativity Parameter: A View from Antipassive.- Ergativity and Change in Inuktitut.- IV -The Range of Ergativity.- Ergativity in Austronesian Languages.- The Split Verb as a Source of Morphological Ergativity.