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Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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This volume examines the phenomenon of ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the ex
Deconstructing Ergativity
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Maria Polinsky
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subjec
The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus
Language: en
Pages: 1189
Authors: Maria Polinsky
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus is an introduction to and overview of the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbai
The Acquisition of Ergativity
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Edith L. Bavin
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisitio
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law
Language: en
Pages: 665
Authors: Peter Meijes Tiersma
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law. It outlines the range of legal areas in