Deconstructing Ergativity: Two Types of Ergative Languages and Their Features by Maria Polinsky

Deconstructing Ergativity: Two Types of Ergative Languages and Their Features

Maria Polinsky

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Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of a transitive verb are expressed the same way, and differently from the object of a...

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