Ergativity

InhaltsangabeAcknowledgements. Preface.- Part I: The Cases. The Locus of Ergative Case Assignment: Evidence from Scope. Neither Absolutive nor Ergartive is Nominative or Accusative. Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case Checking. Syntactic Ergativity in Tongan.- Part II: 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.- Part III: Antipassive. Antipassive Morphology and Case Assignment in Inuktitut. The Ergativity Parameter: A View from Antipassive. Ergativity and Change Inuktitut.- Part IV: The Range of Ergativity. Ergativity in Austronesian Languages. The Split Verb as a Source of Morphological Ergativity.- Index.

InhaltsangabePart-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.