Light Verbs and Split Ergativity in the Western Cholan Languages
This paper is a discussion of a complex verbal construction in Western Cholan languages and how this construction interacts with the split ergative systems found in these languages. The Cholan languages all display split-ergative systems based on aspect. In addition to this split system, Vázquez cla...
Main Author: | Montgomery-Anderson, Brad |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Kansas
2006-01-01
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Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/1228 |
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