n tq1 Ergativity and Ianguage Contact on the Oregon Coast: Alsea, Siuslaw and Coos

Work over the past three decades has identified several diachronic sources from which accusative and ergative patterns develop. Ianguage-internal processes that can lead to ergative categories are described in Anderson 1977, 1988 ' Chung D77, 1978, Payne D79, Trask 979, Ganett 1990, Gildea D98,...

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Main Author: Marianne Mithun
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