Light Verbs and Split Ergativity in the Western Cholan Languages

This paper is a discussion of a complex verbal construction in Western Cholan languages and how this construction interacts with the split ergative systems found in these languages. The Cholan languages all display split-ergative systems based on aspect. In addition to this split system, Vázquez cla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Montgomery-Anderson, Brad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 2006-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/1228