Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Smalgyax) (University of California Publications in Linguistics)
by Jean Gail Mulder
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This work examines the morphological and syntactic dimensions of ergativity (i.e., an intransitive subject is treated in the same manner as a transitive object and differently from the transitive subject) in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax). This language is very highly morphologically ergative and the distribution of ergativity is conditioned by several different factors that are related through their coding of transitivity. Syntactically, the language is not highly ergative, but none of the show more cross-linguistic definitions of subject can account for the ergativity that does exist. show lessTags
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