1 Ergativity and Change in Inuktitut•
Ergativity is property of a language which treats the subject of an intransitive verb as identical in some grammatical fashion to the patient/theme argument of a transitive verb. Explanations for this patterning within generative grammar are many (see Manning 1996; Johns 2000 for an overview). It is...
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| Summary: | Ergativity is property of a language which treats the subject of an intransitive verb as identical in some grammatical fashion to the patient/theme argument of a transitive verb. Explanations for this patterning within generative grammar are many (see Manning 1996; Johns 2000 for an overview). It is also known that languages can change from |
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