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The historical source and typological position of ergativity in Eskimo languages / Michael Fortescue.
Title: | The historical source and typological position of ergativity in Eskimo languages / Michael Fortescue. |
Author(s): | Fortescue, Michael. |
Date: | 1996. |
In: | Études Inuit = Inuit Studies. (1996.), Vol. 19(2) (1996) |
Abstract: | Presents theory-free scenario for genesis of ergativity clause in West Greenlandic and other Eskimo languages. Analyzes successive historical layers of transitive verbal morphology that obscure original situation. Aim is to account in simple diachronic terms for parallelism between transitive verbal inflection and possessed nominal inflections that has led to so much theoretical contoversy in past. |
Notes: | Études Inuit = Inuit Studies. Vol. 19(2) :61-75 (1996). |
Keywords: | 80 -- General questions of linguistics and literature. Philology. 801.5 -- Grammar. 809.475 -- Eskimo-Aleut languages. S -- Literature and Language. (*40) -- North American Arctic. (*38) -- Greenland. |
SPRI record no.: | 138992 |
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