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Ergativity

Index of SIL publications on Ergativity listed by country.

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General works

• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 1995. Review of: Ergativity, by R. M. W. Dixon.
• HÖHLIG, Monika, author. 1987. Syntaktik und Semantik der Ergativkonstruktion am Beispiel des Tscherkessischen.
• KIBRIK, Alexandr E., author. 1991. Semantically ergative languages in typological perspective.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Sudan

• RANDAL, Scott, author. 2000. "Tennet’s ergative origins."

Americas

Bolivia

• CAMP, Elizabeth L., author. 1985. "Split ergativity in Cavineña."

Brazil

• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 1983. Ergativity and transitivity in Paumarí.
• EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1985. A note on ergativity: S’, S’’ in Karitiana.
• HARRISON, Carl H., author. 1983. Typological disharmony and ergativity in Guajajara.
• THOMSON, Ruth; WIESEMANN, Ursula, authors. 2007. Clause types and ergativity in Suyá (Jê).  

Colombia

• FRANK, Paul S., author. 1986. "La ergatividad en el ika."

Peru

• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1983. "Yagua object clitics: syntactic and phonological misalignment and another possible source of ergativity."
• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. Available: 2011; Created: 1996. Enclíticas que marcan el complemento en yagua: un caso de falta de correspondencía posible entre la sintaxis y la fonología y un posible origen de ergatividad.

United States

• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1979. Ergativity in Yupʼik Eskimo.
• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1982. "Role and reference related subject properties and ergativity in Yupʼik Eskimo and Tagalog."

Venezuela

• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1989. Transitivity and ergativity in Panare.
• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1990. "Transitivity and ergativity in Panare."

Asia

Indonesia

• FRIBERG, Barbara, author. 1991. "Ergativity, focus and verb morphology in several South Sulawesi languages."
• JONES, Linda K., author. 1986. "The question of ergativity in Yawa, a Papuan language."
• MARTENS, Michael P., author. 1988. "Focus or ergativity? Pronoun sets in Uma."
• MATTI, David F., author. 1994. "Mamasa pronoun sets."
• VALKAMA, Kari, author. 1995. "Person marking in Duri."

Pakistan

• FARRELL, Timothy, author. 1989. A study of ergativity in Balochi.
• FARRELL, Timothy, author. 1995. "Fading ergativity? A study of ergativity in Balochi."

Philippines

• BRAINARD, Sherri, author. 1994. Voice and ergativity in Karao.
• INGLIS, Douglas, author. 1999. Some discourse evidence for analyzing Molbog as an ergative language.
• TRICK, Douglas, author. 2006. "Ergative control of syntactic processes in Sama Southern."  
• TRICK, Douglas, author. 2008. "Ergative control of syntactic processes in Southern Sinama."
• WALTERS, Dennis, author. 1994. Discourse-based evidence for an ergative analysis of Cebuano.
• WALTERS, Dennis, author. 1995. Discourse based evidence for an ergative analysis of Cebuano.

Pacific

Australia

• SAYERS, Barbara J., author. 1997. "Reference in Wik-Mungkan from a systemic perspective."

Papua New Guinea

• ANDERSON, Neil; WADE, Martha, authors. 1988. "Ergativity and control in Folopa."
• BALA, Alfred; TAUBERSCHMIDT, Gerhard, authors. 1992. "Transitivity and ergativity in Sinaugoro."
• FOSTER, Michael, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1986. Ergativity and control in Timbe.  
• JAMES, Dorothy J.; POTTS, Denise, authors. 1988. "Split ergativity in Siane: a study in markedness."
• SCOTT, Graham K., author. 1986. "On ergativity in Fore and other Papuan languages."