Animacy and asymmetries in differential case marking

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-221

  Malchukov, Andrej L ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Animacy; Competing motivations; Differential case marking; Ditransitive constructions; Ergativity; Optimality Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549011176     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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