A phenomenon often termed "optional ergative marking" is found in a number of genetically unrelated languages. Yali, a Trans-New Guinea language spoken in West Papua, shows striking similarities to optional ergative systems as described in the literature. This paper focuses on the relation between agentivity and discourse prominence, and argues in favour of a systematic distinction between semantic and syntactic contexts as conditioning factors for optional ergative marking. It further provides new evidence for the close interplay of ergative marking and what has been termed "discourse prominence" in descriptions of some other languages and shows that in Yali, optional ergative marking operates on both the global and the local level of disc...
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International audienceThis study investigates the relationship between three types of linguistic pro...
This paper focuses on optional ergative marking in the Papuan language Ku Waru and the Australian Ab...
In this article we provide a preliminary description and analysis of the most common ergative constr...
In this chapter we present material on the acquisition of ergative marking on noun phrases in three ...
Ergativity in Africa is rare; König (2008: 95–96) lists only twelve African languages that have been...
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Ergative patterns treat the subject of an intransitive clause (S) similarly to the object of a trans...
In this article we provide a preliminary description and analysis of the most common ergative constr...
Shiwilu (a.k.a. Jebero) is a nearly extinct Kawapanan language from Peruvian Amazonia. The goal of t...
This article explores discourse practices in Paluai (Admiralties, Oceanic, Austronesian), spoken on ...
Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) is a split ergative language. Pronouns are accusative, while nominal argumen...
Languages with egophoric systems require their users to pay special attention to who knows what in t...
This article argues that looking at the grammatical encoding of agency in lan- guages other than Eng...
East Futunan is an understudied Polynesian language spoken on the islands of Futuna and Alofi in the...
International audienceThis study investigates the relationship between three types of linguistic pro...
This paper focuses on optional ergative marking in the Papuan language Ku Waru and the Australian Ab...
In this article we provide a preliminary description and analysis of the most common ergative constr...
In this chapter we present material on the acquisition of ergative marking on noun phrases in three ...
Ergativity in Africa is rare; König (2008: 95–96) lists only twelve African languages that have been...
This article discusses the distribution and function of a suffix that has been labelled ‘ergative’ ...
Ergative marking and function are generally adequately described in the grammars of the small minori...
Ergative patterns treat the subject of an intransitive clause (S) similarly to the object of a trans...
In this article we provide a preliminary description and analysis of the most common ergative constr...
Shiwilu (a.k.a. Jebero) is a nearly extinct Kawapanan language from Peruvian Amazonia. The goal of t...
This article explores discourse practices in Paluai (Admiralties, Oceanic, Austronesian), spoken on ...
Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) is a split ergative language. Pronouns are accusative, while nominal argumen...
Languages with egophoric systems require their users to pay special attention to who knows what in t...
This article argues that looking at the grammatical encoding of agency in lan- guages other than Eng...
East Futunan is an understudied Polynesian language spoken on the islands of Futuna and Alofi in the...
International audienceThis study investigates the relationship between three types of linguistic pro...