Subject, Voice and Ergativity: Selected Essays

edited by David C. Bennett, Theodora Bynon, B. George Hewitt

ISBN 10: 0728602385 / ISBN 13: 9780728602380

Published by London : School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1998

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vi, 262 pages ; 25 cm. Contents: Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- A.A. XOLODOVIC ON JAPANESE PASSIVES -- DIATHESES AND VOICES IN MODERN JAPANESE1 -- THE CAUSATIVE-PASSIVE CORRELATION -- MORPHOLOGICAL AND LEXICAL CAUSATIVES IN NIVKH -- VOICE IN TURKISH -- PASSIVE-RELATED CONSTRUCTIONS IN COLLOQUIAL SINHALA -- ASPECT, DIRECTIONALITY AND CONTROL IN JAPANESE -- SUBJECT, TOPIC AND TAGALOG SYNTAX -- GEORGIAN-ERGATIVE, ACTIVE, OR WHAT? -- FADING ERGATIVITY? A STUDY OF ERGATIVITY IN BALOCHI -- THE ERGATIVE PARAMETER. Seller Inventory # PGSOASPUB708

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Title: Subject, Voice and Ergativity: Selected ...

Publisher: London : School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Edition: 1st Edition

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Synopsis:

This volume brings together 11 papers which relate to a seminar on language typology held at SOAS in 1988-89. The papers contain a study of the work of the Leningrad Group for the Typological Study of Languages and make some of the Group's research accessible in English translation.