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

co-responsable : Spike Gildea

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...

Grammatical relations in a syntactically ergative language such as Katukina-Kanamari are claimed to rely on the very same formal properties than in accusative...

To appear in a volume submitted to Benjamins, edited by Mauro Tosco and Alessandro Mengozzi