Ergativity in Amazonia 1st Edition by Spike Gildea, Francesc Queixalós ISBN 978-9027206701 9027206708

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ISBN 10:  9027206708

ISBN 13:  978-9027206701

Author:   Spike Gildea, Francesc Queixalós

This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eight papers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages. All are written by linguists with years of fieldwork and comparative experience in the region, all describe details of the synchronic systems, and several also provide diachronic insight into the evolution of these systems. The five papers in Part I focus on languages from four larger families with ergative patterns primarily in morphology. The typological contribution is in detailed consideration of unusual splits, changes in ergative patterns, and parallels between ergative main clauses and nominalizations. The three papers in Part II discuss genetically isolated languages. Two present dominant ergative patterns in both morphology and syntax, the other a syntactic inverse system that is predominantly ergative in discourse. In each, the authors demonstrate that identification of traditional grammatical relations is problematic. These data will figure in all future typological and theoretical debates about grammatical relations.

Table of contents: 

PART 1. 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 Flavia de Castro Alves

PART 2. Recent diachronic innovations: Syntactic ergativity

Ergativity in Truth Raquel Guirardello-Damian

Grammatical relations in Katukina-Kanamari Francesc Queixalós

The intransitive basis of Movima clause structure Katharina Haude

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