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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Ergativity"”.
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Recovering Ergativity in Heritage Samoan
… the face of language shift (i.e. reduced input). Ergativity, the morphosyntactic system of alignment that sets A (the subject of a transitive verb) apart from O (the object of a transitive verb) and S (the sole argument of an intransitive verb), has been shown to be a fragile linguistic feature …
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On the nature of ergativity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1983.
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The acquisition of split-ergativity in Kurmanji Kurdish
… systems, some in the midst of a shift away from ergativity, thus providing variable and inconsistent input for children. Yet previous research suggests that children can acquire variable linguistic forms at early stages, reflecting frequencies in which the forms occur in caregiver input (Henry …
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Aspects of Chinese syntax: Ergativity and phrase structure
This thesis is a study of various aspects of Chinese syntax, from a government-and binding perspective, arguing that a range of grammatical problems of Chinese syntax such as the variable position of subject, word order variation, locative inversion, definiteness effects, quantification and scope …
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Dimensions of ergativity in Inuit : theory and microvariation
This thesis investigates microvariation in the ergative system of the Inuit dialect continuum, as a window into the theoretical status of ergative alignment, argument licensing, and Agree. The empirical focus of this thesis is on the Inuit varieties in which the canonical erg-abs ergative …
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Complementation in Chol (Mayan) : a theory of split ergativity :
… of this dissertation is that aspect-based split ergativity does not mark a split in how Case is assigned, but rather, a split in sentence structure. Specifically, I argue that the contexts in which we find the appearance of a nonergative pattern in an otherwise ergative language-namely, the …
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Case and Phi-agreement in Laki: Parametrizing split-ergativity in Kurdish
… 2016a, Haig 2017, Carrier 2020), I conclude that ergativity is not a single phenomenon. Rather, it is a constellation of a range of linguistic properties.
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Nominalizations and aspect
Languages that have aspectually-conditioned ergativity splits generally oppose a "perfect" tense (often called perfective or aorist), with ergative-absolutive case pattern, to an imperfective where case marking follows the nominative-accusative pattern. The split exists in main clauses in several …
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Clitics and agreement
… include compound verbs, agreement, aspect, ergativity, word order (scrambling), possessor raising and dislocation, ambiguity, relative clauses, and overt vs. covert movement.
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Warlpiri : theoretical implications
… and WCO data. I present an analysis of split ergativity in Warlpiri (ergative-/absolutive case-marking, nominative/accusative agreement), deriving the split from a dissociation of case and agreement, and the inherent nature of ergative case, rather than from non-configurationality. Extending …
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Default ergative
… or object. In this thesis, I investigate (split) ergativity in Mayan languages (mainly Kaqchikel, Chol, Q'anjob'al and Ixil) as a testing ground for the plausibility of the hypothesis that phase head Case exists, and is the correct analysis of certain phenomena generally analyzed as instances of …
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Split intransitivity: Thematic roles, case and agreement
… derived in part from the inherent case theory of ergativity (Legate 2002, Aldridge 2004 and others) and drawing on a detailed typology. The dissertation then proceeds to detailed analysis of the semantic basis of split intransitive alignment in two languages, Basque and Georgian. Other split …