Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
7. Aspect splits and parasitic marking
Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
Ellen Woolford
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Description
Whereas Heck and Muller (this volume) predict a dichotomy between nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive languages, Ellen Woolford shows that the distinction is not always clear-cut in that in some languages, the expression of ergative case depends on certain contextual properties of the construction as a whole.