The Origin of NP Split Ergativity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2893150 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Garrett (0000-0002-0932-8024, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 261 |
| Publication date | 1990-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/414887 |
| OpenAlex | W2089788330 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 15 |
The Anatolian branch of Indo-European is characterized by a split-ergative case-marking system in which neuters inflect ergatively and common-gender nouns inflect accusatively; its ergative case originated via the reanalysis of an unproductive neuter instrumental marker in null-subject transitive clauses. A development from instrumental to ergative also occurred in the prehistory of the Gorokan languages of Papua New Guinea, and it is suggested that this process is a general mechanism for the development of split ergativity of this type. The well-known NP hierarchy discovered by Silverstein receives a natural interpretation as a hierarchy of instrumentality
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| Citations per year | 1.21 |
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| Citation span | 1992 - 2024 (33) |
| Highly cited | No |