Yidiny Coordination Reduction and Syntactic Ergativity

I present an analysis of a typologically unusual pattern of coordination reduction in Yidiny, a Pama-Nyungan language (Dixon 1977). Yidiny shows two dissociated patterns of syntactic ergativity, one that is dependent upon surface morphological features and another indifferent to them. Because within...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frazier, Michael
Other Authors: Northwestern University
Language:en_US
Published: University of Arizona Linguistics Circle 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/253417