Ergativity in Amazonia
By: edited by Spike Gildea, Francesc Queixalós.
Contributors: Gildea, Spike.; Queixalós, Francisco.
Series: Typological studies in language -- v. 89
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9789027206701; 9789027288509
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ergative constructions; Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Languages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Manifestations of ergativity in Amazonia / Francesc Queixalós and Spike Gildea; title: PART I. Well-established systems: Morphological ergativity: Ergativity in the Mayoruna branch of the Panoan family / David W. Fleck; title: Ergativity in Shipibo-Konibo, a Panoan language of the Ucayali / Pilar M. Valenzuela; title: How ergative is Cavineña? / Antoine Guillaume; title: The ergativity effect in Kuikuro (Southern Carib, Brazil) / Bruna Franchetto; title: Nominative-absolutive: Counter-universal split ergativity in Jê and Cariban / Spike Gildea and Flávia de Castro Alves; title: PART II. Recent diachronic innovations: Syntactic ergativity: Ergativity in Trumai / Raquel Guirardello-Damian; title: Grammatical relations in Katukina-Kanamari / Francesc Queixalós; title: The intransitive basis of Movima clause structure / Katharina Haude.