On the morphosyntactic reflexes of information structure in the ergative patterning of the Inuit language Chapters uri icon

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abstract

  • This volume offers theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the issues pertaining to ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the exclusion of transitive subjects.

publication date

  • June 15, 2017