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Date: Mon, 02 May 2016 13:31:19
From: Carolyn Napolitano [Carolyn.Napolitano at oup.com]
Subject: Deconstructing Ergativity: Polinsky
Title: Deconstructing Ergativity
Subtitle: Two Types of Ergative Languages and Their Features
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/deconstructing-ergativity-9780190256593
Author: Maria Polinsky
Paperback: ISBN: 9780190256593 Pages: 408 Price: U.S. $ 49.95
Abstract:
Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across
languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and the
subject of a transitive verb are expressed the same way, and differently from
the object of a transitive. In ergative languages, the subject of an
intransitive and the object of a transitive appear in the same form, the
absolutive, and the transitive subject has a special, ergative, form. Ergative
languages often follow very different patterns, thus evading a uniform
description and analysis. A simple explanation for that has to do with the
idea that ergative languages, much as their nominative-accusative
counterparts, do not form a uniform class. In this book, Maria Polinsky argues
that ergative languages instantiate two main types, the one where the ergative
subject is a prepositional phrase (PP-ergatives) and the one with a
noun-phrase ergative. Each type is internally consistent and is characterized
by a set of well-defined properties.
The book begins with an analysis of syntactic ergativity, which as Polinsky
argues, is a manifestation of the PP-ergative type. Polinsky discusses
diagnostic properties that define PPs in general and then goes to show that a
subset of ergative expressions fit the profile of PPs. Several alternative
analyses have been proposed to account for syntactic ergativity; the book
presents and outlines these analyses and offers further considerations in
support of the PP-ergativity approach. The book then discusses the second
type, DP-ergative languages, and traces the diachronic connection between the
two types.
The book includes two chapters illustrating paradigm PP-ergative and
DP-ergative languages: Tongan and Tsez. The data used in these descriptions
come from Polinsky's original fieldwork hence presenting new empirical facts
from both languages.
Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
Syntax
Typology
Subject Language(s): Dido (ddo)
Tonga (ton)
Written In: English (eng)
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