ERGATIVITY: TOWARDS A THEORY OF A HETEROGENEOUS CLASS
The theory of Case and agreement presented in Bittner and Hale 1996 reduces the traditional distinction between syntactic and morphological ergativity to a structural difference — namely, opacity or transparency of VP to government from C. This hypothesis is tested against detailed evidence from Inu...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.405.2576 2023-05-15T16:54:50+02:00 ERGATIVITY: TOWARDS A THEORY OF A HETEROGENEOUS CLASS Maria Bittner Ken Hale The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1996 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.405.2576 http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mbittner/bittner--hale-96b.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.405.2576 http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mbittner/bittner--hale-96b.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mbittner/bittner--hale-96b.pdf Case agreement A′-binding scope Inuit Warlpiri. Contents 1. Syntactic and morphological ergativity 3 text 1996 ftciteseerx 2022-07-10T00:27:09Z The theory of Case and agreement presented in Bittner and Hale 1996 reduces the traditional distinction between syntactic and morphological ergativity to a structural difference — namely, opacity or transparency of VP to government from C. This hypothesis is tested against detailed evidence from Inuit (opaque) and Warlpiri (transparent). The complex Case and agreement systems of both languages are fully accounted for, and it is shown that the proposed structures further explain other structure-sensitive phenomena (minimal scope options, obviation, and A′-control). In each area, the differences with respect to transparency have predictable consequences Text inuit Unknown Hale ENVELOPE(-86.317,-86.317,-78.067,-78.067) |
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The theory of Case and agreement presented in Bittner and Hale 1996 reduces the traditional distinction between syntactic and morphological ergativity to a structural difference — namely, opacity or transparency of VP to government from C. This hypothesis is tested against detailed evidence from Inuit (opaque) and Warlpiri (transparent). The complex Case and agreement systems of both languages are fully accounted for, and it is shown that the proposed structures further explain other structure-sensitive phenomena (minimal scope options, obviation, and A′-control). In each area, the differences with respect to transparency have predictable consequences |
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