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E-grāmata: Aspects of Split Ergativity [Oxford Scholarship Online E-books]

(Assistant Professor, McGill University)
  • Formāts: 290 pages, 2 b&w line drawings
  • Sērija : Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
  • Izdošanas datums: 19-Sep-2013
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-13: 9780199858743
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  • Formāts: 290 pages, 2 b&w line drawings
  • Sērija : Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
  • Izdošanas datums: 19-Sep-2013
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-13: 9780199858743
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In languages with aspect-based split ergativity, one portion of the grammar follows an ergative pattern, while another shows a "split." In this book, Jessica Coon argues that aspectual split ergativity does not mark a split in how case is assigned, but rather, a split in sentence structure. Specifically, the contexts in which we find the appearance of a nonergative pattern in an otherwise ergative language involve added structure -- a disassociation between the syntactic predicate and the stem carrying the lexical verb stem. This proposal builds on the proposal of Basque split ergativity in Laka 2006, and extends it to other languages.

The book begins with an analysis of split person marking patterns in Chol, a Mayan language of southern Mexico. Here appearance of split ergativity follows naturally from the fact that the progressive and the imperfective morphemes are verbs, while the perfective morpheme is not. The fact that the nonperfective morphemes are verbs, combined with independent properties of Chol grammar, results in the appearance of a split.

In aspectual splits, ergativity is always retained in the perfective aspect. This book further surveys aspectual splits in a variety of unrelated languages and offers an explanation for this universal directionality of split ergativity. Following Laka's (2006) proposal for Basque, Coon proposes that the cross-linguistic tendency for imperfective aspects to pattern with locative constructions is responsible for the biclausality which causes the appearance of a nonergative pattern. Building on Demirdache and Uribe-Etxebarria's (2000) prepositional account of spatiotemporal relations, Coon proposes that the perfective is never periphrastic - and thus never involves a split - because there is no preposition in natural language that correctly captures the relation of the assertion time to the event time denoted by the perfective aspect.
Preface xi
1 Introduction
1(18)
1.1 Ergativity
2(4)
1.1.1 Ergative Data
3(2)
1.1.2 Ergative Analyses
5(1)
1.2 Split Ergativity: The Puzzle
6(8)
1.2.1 Split-S
8(2)
1.2.2 Aspect Split
10(4)
1.3 Outline
14(5)
Part I Complementation in Chol
2 Mayan Background and Clause Structure
19(43)
2.1 Chol and the Mayan Family
19(3)
2.2 Typological Basics
22(23)
2.2.1 Predicate Types and Predicate Initiality
22(3)
2.2.2 Roots, Stems, and Predication
25(3)
2.2.3 Eventive Predicates
28(8)
2.2.4 Aspect
36(6)
2.2.5 Person-Marking
42(3)
2.3 Basic Clause Structure, Case, and Agreement
45(9)
2.3.1 Internal Arguments and Set B
45(5)
2.3.2 External Arguments and Set A
50(4)
2.4 Ergativity and Split Ergativity in Mayan
54(8)
2.4.1 Subordinated Clauses
56(2)
2.4.2 Preverbal Adverbs
58(1)
2.4.3 Aspect
58(2)
2.4.4 Previous Analyses
60(2)
3 Verbs and Nouns in Chol
62(47)
3.1 Introduction
62(2)
3.2 All Verbs Have Internal Arguments
64(15)
3.2.1 One-Place Predicates and Split-S
65(3)
3.2.2 Complementing and Complementless Forms
68(3)
3.2.3 On Predicate-External Subjects
71(2)
3.2.4 Alternations
73(6)
3.3 Complementless Stems and the Light Verb
79(11)
3.3.1 Complementless Stems Are Nominal
79(4)
3.3.2 Distributional Evidence that Complementless Forms Are Nominal
83(6)
3.3.3 Unergative Subjects Are Transitive Subjects
89(1)
3.4 On Nouns and Verbs
90(17)
3.4.1 Verbs Have Specifiers
92(2)
3.4.2 Decomposing VP
94(2)
3.4.3 Chol Predication
96(3)
3.4.4 Nouns
99(7)
3.4.5 Roots and Categories
106(1)
3.5 Summary
107(2)
4 Explaining Split Ergativity in Chol
109(76)
4.1 Introduction
109(4)
4.2 Nonperfective Aspect Markers Are Predicates
113(19)
4.2.1 Aspect Markers Are the Source of the Split
114(1)
4.2.2 Aspect Markers and Situation-Denoting Nominals
115(3)
4.2.3 B-Constructions
118(10)
4.2.4 Origins of the Nonperfective Forms
128(3)
4.2.5 Summary
131(1)
4.3 Explaining Split Ergativity
132(14)
4.3.1 Nominalization
134(1)
4.3.2 Complementing Nonperfectives
135(5)
4.3.3 Distributional Evidence
140(4)
4.3.4 Word Order and Other CP-DP Parallels
144(2)
4.4 In Support of Complex Nominalizations
146(8)
4.4.1 A Return to Predicate-External Subjects
147(2)
4.4.2 Nonroot Transitives
149(4)
4.4.3 Embedded vPs versus Embedded DPs
153(1)
4.5 The Syntax of Subordination
154(20)
4.5.1 Finiteness
156(2)
4.5.2 Nonfinite Clauses
158(4)
4.5.3 "Less Finite" Clauses
162(6)
4.5.4 Summary: A-Constructions Revisited
168(6)
4.6 The Case of Q'anjob'al
174(6)
4.6.1 Split Ergativity and Nonfinite Clauses
174(3)
4.6.2 Evidence for Nonfiniteness
177(2)
4.6.3 Nonfinite Clauses Are Nominalizations
179(1)
4.7 Summary
180(5)
Part II A Theory of Split Ergativity
5 Beyond Mayan: Extending the Analysis
185(39)
5.1 Introduction
185(6)
5.1.1 Split Patterns
187(2)
5.1.2 (T)A(M) Splits
189(2)
5.2 Laka (2006) and Split Ergativity in Basque
191(4)
5.3 Three Types of Aspectual Split
195(20)
5.3.1 Ergative to Neutral
195(12)
5.3.2 Ergative to Extended Ergative
207(2)
5.3.3 Ergative to ABS-OBL
209(5)
5.3.4 Summary
214(1)
5.4 Analysis
215(7)
5.4.1 Split Subjects are Intransitive Subject
216(2)
5.4.2 Previous Analyses
218(2)
5.4.3 Structure and "Counteruniversal" Splits
220(2)
5.5 Split Ergativity Conclusions
222(2)
6 The Grammar of Temporal Relations
224
6.1 Motivating Aspect-Based Split Ergativity
225(9)
6.1.1 Progressive and Locative Expressions
225(2)
6.1.2 The Grammar of Spatiotemporal Relations
227(2)
6.1.3 Evidence for a Spatiotemporal Connection
229(5)
6.2 Perfective as Default Aspect
234(10)
6.2.1 Representing the Perfective
236(4)
6.2.2 Perfective in the Absence of a Preposition
240(4)
6.3 Grammaticalization
244(1)
6.4 Summary
245
7 Conclusion
24(228)
7.1 Overview of Major Claims
247(2)
7.2 Avenues for Future Research
249(3)
A Abbreviations 252(3)
B Narrative Text Abbreviations 255(1)
C Summary of Basic Constructions 256(1)
Bibliography 257(14)
Index 271
Jessica Coon completed her PhD in linguistics at MIT in 2010. After one year as a post-doc at Harvard, she joined the faculty at McGill University in 2011. Her work focuses on the morphology and syntax of under-documented languages. She has more than a decade of experience working on languages of the Mayan family.
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