Aspects of Split Ergativity

Coon's monograph is to be recommended most highly.

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext

Aspects of Split Ergativity argues that aspect-based split ergativity does not mark a split in how Case is assigned, but rather, a split in sentence structure.

Inhalt

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ; PART I COMPLEMENTATION IN CHOL ; CHAPTER 2. MAYAN BACKGROUND AND CLAUSE STRUCTURE ; CHAPTER 3. VERBS AND NOUNS IN CHOL ; CHAPTER 4. EXPLAINING SPLIT ERGATIVITY IN CHOL ; PART II A THEORY OF SPLIT ERGATIVITY ; CHAPTER 5. BEYOND MAYAN ; CHAPTER 6. THE GRAMMAR OF TEMPORAL RELATIONS ; CHAPTER 7. CONCLUSION ; APPENDIX A ABBREVIATIONS ; APPENDIX B NARRATIVE TEXT ABBREVIATIONS ; APPENDIX C SUMMARY OF BASIC CONSTRUCTIONS