Ergativity

InhaltsangabePart-I The Cases.- The Locus of Ergative Case Assignment: Evidence from Scope.- Neither Absolutive nor Ergative is Nominative or Accusative.- Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case Checking.- Syntactic Ergativity in Tongan.- ll-Splits.- A Parametric Syntax of Aspectually Conditioned Split-Ergativity.- Split Absolutive.- Deriving Split Ergativity in the Progressive.- On 'Ergativity' in Halkomelem Salish.- Tree-Geometric Relational Hierarchies and Nuumiipuutímt (Nez Perce) Case.- lll-Antipassive.- Antipassive Morphology and Case Assignment in Inuktitut.- The Ergativity Parameter: A View from Antipassive.- Ergativity and Change in Inuktitut.- IV -The Range of Ergativity.- Ergativity in Austronesian Languages.- The Split Verb as a Source of Morphological Ergativity.