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Title:
ERGATIVITY
ARGUMENT STRUCTURE AND GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS
By:
Christopher D. Manning
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1575860368
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Publisher:
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE & INFORMATION
Pub. date:
30 June, 1996
Series:
Dissertations in Linguistics S.
Pages:
236
Description:
Examining some of the phenomena that have led languages to be considered 'ergative', this book is for linguists and scholars. It addresses two fundamental questions - when ergativity should be analysed as syntactic or morphological and whether languages can be divided into two classes of syntactically and morphologically ergative languages.
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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 and morphologically ergative languages, and if so where the division should be drawn; and whether ergative arguments are always core roles or not. Christopher Manning's codification of syntactic approaches to dealing with ergative languages is based on a hypothesis he terms the 'Inverse Grammatical Relations hypothesis'. This hypothesis adopts a framework that decouples prominence at the levels of grammatical relations and argument structure. The result is two notions of subject - grammatical subject and argument structure subject and a uniform analysis of syntactically ergative and Philippine languages.These language groups, the syntactically ergative and Philippine languages, allow an inverse mapping in the prominence of the two highest terms between argument structure and grammatical relations. This volume combines good scholarship with innovative ideas into an important work that will appeal to a wide range of linguists and scholars.
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