The origin of NP split ergativity  

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Garrett, Andrew

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 66 no. 2 (Sep. 1990), page 261-296.
Fulltext: THE ORIGIN OF NP SPLIT ERGATIVITY.pdf (774.55KB)

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The anatolian branch of Indo-European is characterized by a split-ergative case-marking-system in which neuters inflect ergatively and common gender nouns inflect accusatively; its ergative case originated via the reanalysis of an unproductive neuteur instrumental marker in null-subject transitive clauses. A development from instrumental to ergative also occured in the prehistory of the Gorokan languages of Papua ne Guinea, and it is suggesteed that this process is general mechanism for the development of split ergativity of this type. The wll-known NP hierarchy discovered by Silverstein receives a natural interpretation as a hierarchy of instrumentality.*

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