Ergative is not inherent: Evidence from *ABA in suppletion and syncretism
I show that case syncretism obeys the same *ABA restriction previously observed in case-sensitive suppletion: no Vocabulary-Insertion rule can apply to both an inherent case and an unmarked core case (nominative/absolutive) without also applying to another core case (accusative/ergative). The case h...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/816 |