10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ERGATIVITY»
Discover the use of
ergativity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ergativity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
R.M.W. Dixon here provides a full survey of the various types of ergativity, looking at the ways they interrelate, their semantic bases and their role in the organization of discourse.
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Ergativity: Emerging Issues
This volume presents a collection of papers on the enticing and complex theme of Ergativity. The papers exemplify theoretical depth applied to a wide range of languages, with the majority of papers based on original fieldwork.
Alana Johns, Diane Massam, Juvenal Ndayiragije, 2007
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Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and
Ergativity: ...
The work explores the experiential basis of the prototypical paradigmatic behaviour of verbs (e.g. the ergative predilection of the SUFFOCATE verbs).
This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eight papers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages.
Spike Gildea, Francisco Queixalós, 2010
R.M.W. Dixon here provides a full survey of the various types of ergativity, looking at the ways they interrelate, their semantic bases and their role in the organization of discourse.
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Functional Structure in Nominals: Nominalization and
Ergativity
The book targets researchers in theoretical linguistics, comparative syntax, morphology and typology. It can also be used as a foundation book on the morpho-syntax of nominals, argument structure and word formation.
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Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algya̲x)
00 This work examines the morphological and syntactic dimensions of ergativity (i.e., an intransitive subject is treated in the same manner as a transitive object and differently from the transitive subject) in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax).
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Ergativity and Causativity
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg (English Department), course: The Syntax and Semantics of the English Verb Phrase, 13 entries in the ...
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Aspects of Split
Ergativity
Aspects of Split Ergativity argues that aspect-based split ergativity does not mark a split in how Case is assigned, but rather, a split in sentence structure.
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The Acquisition of
Ergativity
Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity in a large variety of typologically distinct languages.
Edith L. Bavin, Sabine Stoll, 2013
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ERGATIVITY»
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Teenage hyperpolyglot
... languages like Spanish, instead choosing new languages like Ojibwe, because they pose novel challenges like agglutination or ergativity. «The Economist, Jul 13»
You Can't Say That in Japanese!
The language of the Maya, for example, exhibits a bizarre property known by linguists as “ergativity,” in which the subject of intransitive verbs is identical with the ... «Asia Society, Feb 13»
Adventures of a Teenage Polyglot
“Do you know what ergativity is?” he asked her, referring to a property of some languages, including Hindi, by which a verb's subject changes ... «New York Times, Mar 12»
