Switch-reference question

[Yehuda N. Falk]

Dear LFGers,

I am interested in finding a language which displays "syntactic ergativity"
and has a switch-reference system. By syntactic ergativity, I mean stuff
like S and P (O) arguments being raised, being controlled, being
relativizable, being chained in coordinated clauses, to the exclusion of
the A argument.

I have not found any examples of syntactically ergative + switch-reference
languages in the literature. Assuming they exist, I'm interested in whether
the switch-reference system targets S and A or S and P.

Thanks muchly.



                             Yehuda N. Falk
                        (until 4 February 2000:)
             Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
                        Stanford, California, USA
                             (permanent:)
        Department of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
                      Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

                         msyfalk at mscc.huji.ac.il
            until 4 February also: yfalk at leland.stanford.edu
       Personal Web Site    http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msyfalk/
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