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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781037803321

Titolo

Ergativity in Amazonia [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Spike Gildea, Francesc Queixalós

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins, 2010

ISBN

1-282-55869-2

9786612558696

90-272-8850-X

Descrizione fisica

319 p

Collana

Typological studies in language, , 0167-7373 ; ; 89

Altri autori (Persone)

GildeaSpike

QueixalósFrancisco

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Ergative constructions

Indians of South America - Amazon River Region - Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Manifestations of ergativity in Amazonia / Francesc Queixalós and Spike Gildea --PART I. Well-established systems: Morphological ergativity: Ergativity in the Mayoruna branch of the Panoan family / David W. Fleck -- Ergativity in Shipibo-Konibo, a Panoan language of the Ucayali / Pilar M. Valenzuela -- How ergative is Cavineña? / Antoine Guillaume -- The ergativity effect in Kuikuro (Southern Carib, Brazil) / Bruna Franchetto -- Nominative-absolutive: Counter-universal split ergativity in Jê and Cariban / Spike Gildea and Flávia de Castro Alves -- PART II. Recent diachronic innovations: Syntactic ergativity: Ergativity in Trumai / Raquel Guirardello-Damian -- Grammatical relations in Katukina-Kanamari / Francesc Queixalós -- The intransitive basis of Movima clause structure / Katharina Haude.