Ergativity as a natural manifestation of the v > EA base
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https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5254Keywords:
ergativity, vP structure, feature ordering, multiplicity of featuresAbstract
This study proposes an analysis of ergativity based on the hypothesis that, contrary to the standardly assumed structure, the Case assigner v asymmetrically c-commands the base position of all the arguments of the verb, including the external argument. Simply assuming that an EPP feature attracts the closest NP it c-commands, and that a Case feature assigns structural Case to the closest NP it c-commands, we aim at a theory in which ergativity as well as accusativity is a natural manifestation of this universal base, while their differences reflect the parametric differences of the formal features of v.Downloads
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2022-05-05
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Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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Tanaka, Hiroyuki. 2022. “Ergativity As a Natural Manifestation of the V > EA Base”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 7 (1): 5254. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5254.