10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABSOLUTIVE»
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absolutive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
absolutive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Object and
Absolutive in Halkomelem Salish
4.2.1 Evidence that the Downstairs Final Absolutive is Upstairs Object I give two
arguments, based on Pronominal Case and quantifier extraction, that the
downstairs final absolutive is upstairs object in clauses involving CCU. In §3.1.2
above, ...
2
An Introduction to the Languages of the World
(8) gila,qunda qala,n qala,n qanda,ji mulgu somewhere (loc. vb. marker) +
somewhere (suffix)/ unseen + Class II (abso, lutive)/ unseen + Class II (absolutive
)/ call out + tut. tense/ noise (Class I/Class II, absolutive) (9) qadp walma,walma,
galt ...
3
Ergativity: Emerging Issues
To summarize, ergative case is available in nonfinite clauses, absolutive case for
intransitive subjects is not available (see footnote 9), whereas absolutive case for
transitive objects is available. In addition, dative case is available for transitive ...
Alana Johns, Diane Massam, Juvenal Ndayiragije, 2007
4
Selected Studies: Indo-European linguistics
Although the use of the absolutive (gerund) has been quite satisfactorily
described by Whitney,1 Speyer,2 Renou3 and other authors of Sanskrit
grammars, it may be useful to add some examples to the not very numerous texts
they have ...
5
Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach
Since we have argued that the absolutive argument in Dyirbal is the grammatical
subject of its clause, we must conclude that in the antipassive construction the
agent replaces the patient as grammatical subject. How exactly does this change
...
In §4.1.3 and §4.2, I pointed out that absolutive number and distributives qualify
entities that must bear an absolutive relation to the verb. I suggested then that
Mithun and Chafe's (1999) notion of "most immediate involvement " offers an ...
Many other languages could be mentioned but these examples should suffice to
indicate that while the unmarked cases - absolutive and nominative - are almost
always used only for basic syntactic relations, the marked case forms - ergative ...
Nominative-absolutive Counter-universal split ergativity in Jê and Cariban Spike
Gildea and Flávia de Castro Alves University of Oregon, Universidade de Brasília
Nominative-absolutive alignment is a form of split-ergativity in two ways.
Spike Gildea, Francisco Queixalós, 2010
9
The Nominal Sentence in Sanskrit and Middle Indo-Aryan
There seems to be an ambiguity, because, before we have seen the end of this
stanza, we might imagine that the accusative of nrpam depends on the absolutive
drstva; only when the entire stanza is read, can we connect nrpam to tam and, ...
10
Language Contact and Language Conflict
I consider it quite significant that the nominative and absolutive cases are usually
the zero forms, whereas accusative and ergative are generally overtly marked.
This constitutes grammatical evidence that nominative and absolutive each have
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