Ergative and nominative in English

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ID10139740
AuthorsJ Anderson (0000-0002-9488-8447), John M Anderson (0000-0002-0306-032X, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author)
Year1968
Volume4
Issue1
Pages1-32
Publication date1968-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022226700001626
OpenAlexW1972120673
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited22

Consider the following two sentences: (i) a. This man cut the bread b. This man fell In both cases, many traditional accounts (e.g. Zandvoort, 1961: 236–240; Scheurweghs, 1959: 1–19; Chomsky, 1962: 138–140, 1965: 63–64; etc.) would say that we have a single clause (or sentence) which consists of two parts, a subject and a predicate. And the two examples differ in the constitution of the predicate. This distinction between the two is usually described as having to do with transitivity. In (i.a) the verb is said to take an object, and is therefore transitive; in (i.b) this is not the case, and the verb is intransitive

Combinatorics · Ergative case · Fell · Geography · Linguistics · Nominative case · Object (grammar · Predicate (mathematical logic · Sentence · Subject (documents · Transitive relation · Verb · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Lexicography and Language Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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