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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:48:45
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity: Coon, Massam, Travis (eds.)

 


Title: The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-ergativity-9780198739371 


Editor: Jessica L Coon
Editor: Diane Massam
Editor: Lisa Travis

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198739371 Pages: 960 Price: U.S. $ 160


Abstract:

This volume offers theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the issues
pertaining to ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are
in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the exclusion of transitive
subjects. This pattern differs markedly from nominative/accusative marking
whereby transitive and intransitive subjects are treated as one grammatical
class, to the exclusion of direct objects. While ergativity is sometimes
referred to as a typological characteristic of languages, research on the
phenomenon has shown that languages do not fall clearly into one category or
the other and that ergative characteristics are not consistent across
languages. 

Chapters in this volume look at approaches to ergativity within generative,
typological, and functional paradigms, as well as approaches to the core
morphosyntactic building blocks of an ergative construction; related
constructions such as the anti-passive; related properties such as split
ergativity and word order; and extensions and permutations of ergativity,
including nominalizations and voice systems. The volume also includes results
from experimental investigations of ergativity, a relatively new area of
research. A wide variety of languages are represented, both in the theoretical
chapters and in the 16 case studies that are more descriptive in nature,
attesting to both the pervasiveness and diversity of ergative patterns.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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