Argument Marking in Ditransitive Alignment Types

Argument Marking in Ditransitive Alignment Types

This paper discusses the patterns of case-marking/adpositional marking and indexing of ditransitive clauses in the world's languages, i.e. clauses with an Agent, a Recipient and a Theme argument. It distinguishes three major alignment types, indirective, secundative, and neutral, corresponding...

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Main Author: Martin Haspelmath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dartmouth College Library 2005-01-01
Series:Linguistic Discovery
Subjects:
morphology
ergative
ergativity
ditransitive
transitive
typology
case
alignment
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.280

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