Nisgha syntax and the ergativity hypothesis
Nisgha has been classified by at least three different linguists as syntactically ergative (Rigsby, Rood, and Tarpent). This is motivated by the fact that in certain constructions the agent of a transitive verb patterns differently than the patient of the transitive or the single argument of an intr...
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University of British Columbia
1984
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24967 |