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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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.405.2576 http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mbittner/bittner--hale-96b.pdf |