Ergativity in Austronesian Languages

Paul, Ileana; Travis, Lisa deMena

doi:10.1007/1-4020-4188-8_13

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“…Many linguists do, in fact, analyze both (1a) and (2) as transitive clause types (Carrier-Duncan, 1985;Foley, 2008;Guilfoyle et al, 1992 1 ;Kroeger, 1993;Maclachlan, 1996Maclachlan, , 2002Paul and Travis, 2006;Rackowski, 2002;Rackowski and Richards, 2005;Schachter, 1976Schachter, , 1994. In this paper, I take a different tack.…”

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“…Many Austronesian linguistics continue to reject the ergative analysis of Tagalog, claiming that these languages do not have a true antipassive construction (Kroeger, 1993;Paul and Travis, 2006;Schachter, 1994), as I discussed briefly in section 1. Their objections, however, are not problematic for the analysis of antipassive put forth in the preceding section.…”

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Antipassive and ergativity in Tagalog

Aldridge

2012

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Antipassive and ergativity in Tagalog

Aldridge

2012

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“…In recent years, a lot of work has been performed on the correlation between case/agreement alternations and aspect (Borer 1993, 1998, 2005; Svenonius 1995, 2002a,b; Travis 2000, 2001; Kratzer 2004a,b; Paul and Travis 2006). One clear picture has emerged.…”

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On the Conditions for Antipassives

Spreng

2010

Language and Linguist. Compass

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This survey of the triggers for Antipassives compares the most commonly known conditions under which Antipassive and accusative configurations occur in ergative and split-ergative languages. It is shown that Antipassives and accusative configurations are triggered by similar if not identical semantic conditions. These conditions are always in contrast to the conditions for ergative configurations. A comparison of those triggers in accusative languages shows that they follow parallel patterns. It is confirmed that changes in case configurations are triggered by similar semantic properties, regardless of the typological corner a language comes from.

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“…Woolford and Legate also assume that ergative is assigned by v; the only relevant difference is that they postulate that ergative assignment must go hand in hand with θ ‐assignment. Sometimes, it has been argued that ergativity may have different sources (Aldridge , Paul & Travis , Legate ; see also fn. 1).…”

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Ergatives Move Too Early: On an Instance of Opacity in Syntax

Assmann

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Abstract. In this paper we examine the ban onĀ-movement of the external argument of a transitive verb that holds in many morphologically ergative languages. We argue that the prohibition against movement of the ergative subject should not be derived from restrictions on the movement of the ergative DP. Rather, we suggest that movement of the ergative argument is per se unproblematic, but if it applies, it applies too early, and thereby creates problems for its absolutive co-argument, which does not receive structural case. In morphologically accusative languages, no such movement asymmetry arises because arguments move too late to trigger the fatal consequences that moving ergatives cause. We present a relational, co-argument-based analysis that implies a strictly derivational syntax in which the order of operations plays an important role in deriving properties of the grammar.

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Ergativity in Austronesian Languages

Cited by 56 publications

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Antipassive and ergativity in Tagalog

Antipassive and ergativity in Tagalog

On the Conditions for Antipassives

Ergatives Move Too Early: On an Instance of Opacity in Syntax

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