| Autor: |
McGregor, William B. |
| Přispěvatelé: |
Gentens, Caroline, Ghesquière, Lobke, McGregor, William B., Van Linden, An |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
McGregor, W B 2023, Zero-marking or nothing to mark? The case against absolutive "Case" in Gooniyandi . in C Gentens, L Ghesquière, W B McGregor & A Van Linden (eds), Reconnecting Form and Meaning : In honour of Kristin Davidse . John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Studies in Language Companion Series, vol. 230, pp. 237-265 . https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.230.09mcg |
| DOI: |
10.1075/slcs.230.09mcg |
| Popis: |
Gooniyandi (Bunuban, Kimberley, north-west Australia), according to McGregor (1990a), has an ergative case-marker. Unusually, McGregor's grammar does not identify a corresponding zero absolutive case-marker or case; nor does it discuss why there is none. This paper rectifies this lacuna and outlines the evidence against the recognition of an absolutive case-marker. The arguments concern both evidence for the absence of an absolutive case-marker, and absence of evidence for one. Thus it is possible to find ergativity in a grammatical subsystem of a language without corresponding absolutivity. I discuss some implications for the typology of ergativity, and examine conditions under which it is viable to identify an absolutive case and/or case-marker. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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