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Ergativity

Index of SIL publications on Ergativity listed by country.

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General works

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

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Sudan

• Randal, Scott. 2000. "Tennet’s ergative origins."

Americas

Bolivia

• Camp, Elizabeth L. 1985. "Split ergativity in Cavineña."

Brazil

• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1983. "Ergativity and transitivity in Paumarí."
• Everett, Daniel L. 1985. "A note on ergativity: S’, S’’ in Karitiana."
• Harrison, Carl H. 1983. "Typological disharmony and ergativity in Guajajara."
• Wiesemann, Ulla and Ruth Thomson. 2007. Clause types and ergativity in Suyá (Jê).  

Colombia

• Frank, Paul. 1986. "La ergatividad en el ika."

Peru

• Payne, Thomas E. 1983. "Yagua object clitics: syntactic and phonological misalignment and another possible source of ergativity."
• Payne, Thomas E. 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. 1979. Ergativity in Yupʼik Eskimo.
• Payne, Thomas E. 1982. "Role and reference related subject properties and ergativity in Yupʼik Eskimo and Tagalog."

Venezuela

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

Asia

Indonesia

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

Pakistan

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

Philippines

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

Pacific

Australia

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

Papua New Guinea

• Anderson, Neil and Martha Wade. 1988. "Ergativity and control in Folopa."
• Potts, Denise and Dorothy J. James. 1988. "Split ergativity in Siane: a study in markedness."
• Scott, Graham K. 1986. "On ergativity in Fore and other Papuan languages."
• Tauberschmidt, Gerhard and Alfred Bala. 1992. "Transitivity and ergativity in Sinaugoro."