Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Appeal
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Syntactically based and semantically based marking
- 3 Intra-clausal or morphological ergativity
- 4 Types of split system
- 5 The category of ‘subject’
- 6 Inter-clausal or syntactic ergativity
- 7 Language change
- 8 The rationale for ergativity
- Appendix: A note on theoretical models
- References
- Index of authors
- Index of languages and language families
- Subject index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Appeal
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Syntactically based and semantically based marking
- 3 Intra-clausal or morphological ergativity
- 4 Types of split system
- 5 The category of ‘subject’
- 6 Inter-clausal or syntactic ergativity
- 7 Language change
- 8 The rationale for ergativity
- Appendix: A note on theoretical models
- References
- Index of authors
- Index of languages and language families
- Subject index
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- Ergativity , pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994