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
Americas
Bolivia
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.
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THOMSON, Ruth; WIESEMANN, Ursula, authors. 2007. Clause types and ergativity in Suyá (Jê).
Colombia
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.
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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
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."
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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."