Acquisition of an ergative language

[Tasaku Tsunoda]

25 June 2002

Dear Colleague,
   I am writing to seek your advice.
   Is there any work which investigate the acquisition of an ergative
language:

(a-i) as a first language,
(a-ii) as a second language,

(b-i) at the level of simple sentences, and/or
(b-ii) at the level of subordination or coordination (i.e. syntactic
ergativity) ?

   I know only one work:
Pye, C. 1990. The acquisition of ergative languages. Linguistics
28:1291-1330.

   Thanking you in advance for your help,

Tasaku Tsunoda

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Tasaku Tsunoda
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
University of Tokyo
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

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