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Book: Linguistic Derivations and Filtering

Chapter: 7. Aspect splits and parasitic marking

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.24815

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Whereas Heck and Muller (this volume) predict a dichotomy between nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive languages, Ellen Woolford shows that the distinction is not always clear-cut in that in some languages, the expression of ergative case depends on certain contextual properties of the construction as a whole.

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