Примери за ergative

• He told me these unusual-looking grammatical patterns I had uncovered were ergative.

• No African language is known to have ergative characteristics.

• The language is said to have ergative syntax.

• Ergatives can be used transitively (The storm sank the ship) as well as intransitively (The ship sank).

• In English, the object of an ergative has to be moved to subject position.

• In ergative- absolutive languages, the lowest nonoblique argument gets absolutive and the next lowest gets ergative.

• The explanation of ergative-absolutive and nominative-accusative alignment is clear.

• The formal hierarchy is based on the morphological complexity of the marking : nominative\absolutive accusative\ergative dative\other oblique adposition (436).

• The ergative case is marked with one of four morphemes but there is no marking for absolutive case.

• While adults only dropped the ergative case marker in a pre-consonant position, the children also dropped it in pre-vocalic and utterance final positions.

• He notes therefore that one should not speak of an ' ergative language ' but rather an ' ergative system ' within a language.

• Table 6 shows the rate of omission of ergative case in monolingual children, which is 22/70 or 31%.

• My claim is that the difficulty that children have in producing ergative case is a morphological one.

• If the trapped ergative case marker had been lost for phonotactic reasons, we would expect it to have been retained at least in vowel-final stems.

• Lexical verbs may be transitive (29a, b), ergative (29c, d), and intransitive (29e).

• This name is more difficult to explain morphologically because the grammatical features such as ergative pronouns cannot be detected.

• The omission of ergative case was productive in ten of the twenty bilingual subjects of this study.

• This would give information to a child as to the argument structure of the verb : the verb would require an ergative subject.

• In the ergative, the trapped suffix -n of the host noun was lost.

• The behaviour of unergative verbs contrasts sharply with that of ergative ones and is clearly in line with our analysis.