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Author:   Jessica Coon (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, McGill University) ,  Diane Massam (Professor, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto) ,  Lisa deMena Travis (Professor, Professor, Department of Linguistics, McGill University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 5.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.002kg
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9780198739371

ISBN 10:   0198739370
Pages:   1296
Publication Date:   15 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1: Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, and Lisa deMena Travis: Introduction PART I: ACCOUNTING FOR ERGATIVITY Representing Ergativity 2: John W. Du Bois: Ergativity in discourse and grammar 3: Michelle Sheehan: Parameterizing ergativity: An inherent case approach 4: Anoop Mahajan: Accusative and ergative in Hindi The Nature of Ergative Case 5: Mark C. Baker and Jonathan David Bobaljik: On inherent and dependent theories of ergative case 6: Julie Anne Legate: The locus of ergative case 7: Itziar Laka: Ergative need not split: An exploration into the TotalErg hypothesis 8: Léa Nash: The structural source of split ergativity and ergative case in Georgian PART II: CHARACTERISTICS AND EXTENSIONS Characteristics 9: Ellen Woolford: Split ergativity in syntax and at morphological spellout 10: Jessica Coon and Omer Preminger: Split ergativity is not about ergativity 11: Andrej Malchukov: Ergativity and differential case marking 12: Gereon Müller and Daniela Thomas: Three-way systems do not exist 13: Maria Polinsky: Antipassive 14: Knut Tarald Taraldsen: Remarks on the relation between case-alignment and constituent order Extensions 15: Artemis Alexiadou: Ergativity in nominalization 16: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Theodore Levin, and Coppe van Urk: Ergativity and Austronesian-type voice systems 17: Alana Johns and Ivona Ku %cerová: On the morphosyntactic reflexes of the information structure in the ergative patterning of the Inuit language 18: Martina Wiltschko: Ergative constellations in the structure of speech acts PART III: APPROACHES TO ERGATIVITY DIACHRONIC 19: William McGregor: Grammaticalization of ergative case marking 20: Geoffrey Haig: Deconstructing Iranian ergativity 21: Edith Aldridge: Intransitivity and the development of ergative alignment 22: Miriam Butt and Ashwini Deo: Developments into and out of ergativity: Indo-Aryan diachrony 23: Ritsuko Kikusawa: Ergativity and language change in Austronesian languages 24: Daniel Kaufman: Lexical category and alignment in Austronesian Acquisition 25: Edith Bavin: The acquisition of ergativity: An overview 26: Jennifer Austin: The role of defaults in the acquisition of Basque ergative and dative morphology 27: Clifton Pye and Barbara Pfeiler: A comparative study of the acquisition of nominative and ergative alignment in European and Mayan languages Experimental 28: Adam Zawiszewski: Processing ergativity: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence 29: Nicholas Longenbaugh and Maria Polinsky: Experimental approaches to ergative languages PART IV: CASE STUDIES 30: Judith Aissen: Correlates of ergativity in Mayan 31: Mark C. Baker: Ergative case in Burushaski: A dependent case analysis 32: Ane Berro and Ricardo Etxepare: Ergativity in Basque 33: Miriam Butt: Hindi/Urdu and related languages 34: Richard Compton: Ergativity in Inuktitut 35: Diana Forker: Ergativity in Nakh-Dagestanian 36: Geoffrey Khan: Ergativity in Neo-Aramaic 37: Christa König: Ergativity in Africa 38: Shobhana Chelliah: Ergativity in Tibeto-Burman 39: Mary Laughren: The ergative in Warlpiri: A case study 40: Yuko Otsuka: Ergative-absolutive patterns in Tongan: An overview 41: Tyler Peterson: Ergativity across Tsimshianic 42: Francesc Queixalós: What being a syntactically ergative language means for Katukina-Kanamari 43: Andrés Salanova: Ergativity in Jê languages 44: Eva Schultze-Berndt: Interaction of ergativity and information structure in Jaminjung (Australia) 45: Kevin Tuite: Alignment and orientation in Kartvelian (South Caucasian)

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Jessica Coon is Associate Professor of Linguistics at McGill University. She finished her PhD at MIT in 2010 and then spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Jessica has worked on topics including ergativity, split ergativity, verb-initial word order, and agreement, with a special focus on Mayan languages. Her book Aspects of Split Ergativity was published by OUP in 2013. Diane Massam (Ph.D. MIT 1985) is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto, where she has also served as Chair. Her research areas are argument structure, case, predication, and word order, with a focus on the Niue language (Polynesian), and an interest in register variation in English. She has edited volumes on Austronesian syntax, ergativity, and the count-mass distinction, including Count and Mass Across Languages (OUP 2012). Lisa deMena Travis received her PhD in Linguistics from MIT in 1984, writing her thesis on the parameters of word order variation. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University. Her current research focuses mainly on phrase structure, head movement, language typology, and Austronesian languages (in particular, Malagasy), and the interface between syntax and phonology. Her book Inner Aspect: The Articulation of VP was published by Springer in 2010.

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