The acquisition of ergativity / edited by Edith L. Bavin, La Trobe University ; Sabine Stoll, University of Zurich.

The acquisition of ergativity /

Ergativity in Mayan languages is realized in the cross-referencing features on verbs rather than as case marking features on noun phrases. Overt absolutive markers appear with intransitive verbs. Some Mayan languages extend the ergative markers to intransitive verbs in aspectless complement clauses....

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Other Authors: Bavin, Edith Laura (Editor), Stoll, Sabine (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Series:Trends in language acquisition research ; 9.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Ergative constructions.
Typology (Linguistics)
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