LINGUIST List 21.2490

Sun Jun 06 2010

Books: Morphology/Syntax/Typology: Gildea, Queixalós (Eds)

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        1.    Paul Peranteau, Ergativity in Amazonia: Gildea, Queixalós (Eds)

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Message 1: Ergativity in Amazonia: Gildea, Queixalós (Eds)
Date: 06-Jun-2010
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Ergativity in Amazonia: Gildea, Queixalós (Eds)
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Title: Ergativity in Amazonia Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 89 Published: 2010 Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2089

Editor: Spike Gildea Editor: Francesc Queixalós Electronic: ISBN: 9789027288509 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027288509 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206701 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206701 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Abstract:

This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eightpapers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages. All are writtenby linguists with years of fieldwork and comparative experience in theregion, all describe details of the synchronic systems, and several alsoprovide diachronic insight into the evolution of these systems. The fivepapers in Part I focus on languages from four larger families with ergativepatterns primarily in morphology. The typological contribution is indetailed consideration of unusual splits, changes in ergative patterns, andparallels between ergative main clauses and nominalizations. The threepapers in Part II discuss genetically isolated languages. Two presentdominant ergative patterns in both morphology and syntax, the other asyntactic inverse system that is predominantly ergative in discourse. Ineach, the authors demonstrate that identification of traditionalgrammatical relations is problematic. These data will figure in all futuretypological and theoretical debates about grammatical relations.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation                             Morphology                             Syntax                             Typology Areal Regions: Amazonian
Written In: English (eng )

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