Maria Polinsky

Broschiertes Buch

Deconstructing Ergativity

Two Types of Ergative Languages and Their Features

Beschreibung

Building upon theoretical innovations and extensive empirical findings, this book explains variation in the syntactic behavior of ergative arguments across languages. It offers a new analysis of ergativity by recognizing two distinct types, PP-ergative- and DP-ergative-languages. Each type is characterized by a set of correlated features which result in structural consistency.

Autor

Maria Polinsky is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She investigates the syntax of natural languages, with a particular emphasis on language universals and the range of variation in sentence structure. She has produced detailed syntactic analyses of a number of lesser-studied languages and has a long-standing interest in the ways different grammatical models can be used to analyze syntactic phenomena.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780190256593
• ISBN-10: 0190256591
• Artikelnr.: 47864079