Ergativity, or traces of it, in N.Am. pidgins?

Sally Thomason thomason at UMICH.EDU
Mon Mar 13 13:51:58 UTC 2000


There's no ergativity in the Delaware Pidgin.  None in Chinook
Jargon that I've seen, either.

But then, it's not at all clear that Salishan languages have much
in the way of ergativity either, though they do have some features
that have led a few scholars to talk about ergativity.  But at
best it's not very well developed (at least in the Southern Interior
languages like Kalispel-Spokane-Flathead).

  -- Sally



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