The acquisition of ergativity

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Ergativity in Mayan languages is realized in the cross-referencing features on verbs rather than as case marking features on noun phrases. Overt absolutive markers appear with intransitive verbs. Some Mayan languages extend the ergative markers to intransitive verbs in aspectless complement clauses. The languages also make changes to transitive verbs in the same aspectless contexts. We evaluate how Mam, Q'anjob'al and Yucatec children acquire the extension of the ergative markers to intransitiv…

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Full title :The acquisition of ergativity / edited by Edith L. Bavin, La Trobe University ; Sabine Stoll, University of Zurich.

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Publication Date:2013.

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Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9789027271235, 9027271232, 1306117925, 9781306117920
oclc:ocn864903364
LC Classification:P291.5
Dewey Decimal:415

The Acquisition of Ergativity; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; The acquisition of ergativity; Introduction ; Acquiring ergativity: Some challenges ; Semantic bootstrapping hypothesis ; Universal vs. language specific ; When ergative alignment applies: Split systems ; Identifying the argument structure of verbs ; The social context of acquisition ; Overview of the volume ; Final comment ; References ; Ergativity ; Introduction ; Alignment types ; Semantic alignment ; Symmetric alignment ; Alignment splits ; Syntactic alignment biases ; Some diachronic issues.

Conclusions References ; Ergativity in child Basque; Introduction ; Ergativity in Basque ; Basque case marking ; Basque verbal morphology ; Basque word order ; The development of case and agreement in child Basque ; Factors which influence morphological development ; Phonological difficulty ; Morphological complexity ; Input frequency ; Research questions ; Methods ; Participants ; Procedures ; Data analyses ; Results ; Verbal agreement errors ; Case errors ; Discussion and conclusions ; Appendix ; References ; The acquisition of ergativity in Inuktitut; Introduction ; Structure of Inuktitut.

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