On the interaction of morphological and syntactic ergativity: Lessons from Kurdish

Lingua

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 149-173

  Haig, Geoffrey ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Kurdish; Morphological and syntactic ergativity; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042765131     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3841(98)00014-x     Document Type: Article

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