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Aspects of Split Ergativity (Hardcover, New)
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Aspects of Split Ergativity (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
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In languages with aspect-based split ergativity, one portion of the
grammar follows an ergative pattern, while another shows a "split."
In this book, Jessica Coon argues that aspectual split ergativity
does not mark a split in how case is assigned, but rather, a split
in sentence structure. Specifically, the contexts in which we find
the appearance of a nonergative pattern in an otherwise ergative
language involve added structure - a disassociation between the
syntactic predicate and the stem carrying the lexical verb stem.
This proposal builds on the proposal of Basque split ergativity in
Laka 2006, and extends it to other languages. The book begins with
an analysis of split person marking patterns in Chol, a Mayan
language of southern Mexico. Here appearance of split ergativity
follows naturally from the fact that the progressive and the
imperfective morphemes are verbs, while the perfective morpheme is
not. The fact that the nonperfective morphemes are verbs, combined
with independent properties of Chol grammar, results in the
appearance of a split. In aspectual splits, ergativity is always
retained in the perfective aspect. This book further surveys
aspectual splits in a variety of unrelated languages and offers an
explanation for this universal directionality of split ergativity.
Following Laka's (2006) proposal for Basque, Coon proposes that the
cross-linguistic tendency for imperfective aspects to pattern with
locative constructions is responsible for the biclausality which
causes the appearance of a nonergative pattern. Building on
Demirdache and Uribe-Etxebarria's (2000) prepositional account of
spatiotemporal relations, Coon proposes that the perfective is
never periphrastic - and thus never involves a split - because
there is no preposition in natural language that correctly captures
the relation of the assertion time to the event time denoted by the
perfective aspect.
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