Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations

by Christopher D. Manning

Book Overview

This volume considers and examines some of the phenomena that have led languages to be considered 'ergative'. Languages considered 'ergative' have only been sparsely studied, and many fundamental questions in their analysis seem at best incompletely answered. This volume fills that void by focusing on some of the basic issues: when ergativity should be analysed as syntactic or morphological; whether languages can be divided into two classes of syntactically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575860368
• ISBN13: 9781575860367
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"