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In Movima (unclassified, lowland Bolivia), the arguments of a transitive clause are basically encoded according to the position of their referents in a salience...

This article describes seven distinct argument demoting constructions in Japhug Rgyalrong, a Sino-Tibetan spoken in Western Sichuan

Intransitivizing voice in a syntactically ergative language such as Katukina-Kanamari fulfills the need for a promoting device that enables the lower ranked argument,...

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Ergativity is widespread in Amazonia, and the new data gathered in the volume reactivates the issue of how current typological/theoretical ideas are prepared to...

Katukina-Kanamari is a strongly ergative language, with ergative case-marking, ergative verbal cross-referencing and ergative VP constituency, plus an absolutive pivot...

This introduction to the volume "Ergativity, Valency and Voice" points out some basic issues concerning the topics in question and gives a brief overview of the...

This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative...

This article explores the system of verbal voice morphemes in Movima (unclassified, Amazonian Bolivia) and seeks to explain why most transitive main clauses in Movima...

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The parallel evolution of the construction of perfect and modal future from Sanskrit to early Indo-Aryan, in the West as in the East, shows that both originally...