A question about ergative markers

Robert van Valin vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
Fri Oct 16 16:47:40 UTC 1998


Kaluli seems to have different ergative markers, including one for focal
actors.  See Bambi Schieffelin's chapter in the Slobin 'Cross-linguistic
study of language acquisition'.

Robert Van Valin

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