Ergativity: Toward a theory of a heterogeneous class

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 531-604

  Bittner, Maria ^a   Hale, Ken ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

binding; Agreement; Case; Inuit; Scope; Warlpiri

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039146679     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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