Virginia Beavert

List of John Benjamins publications for which Virginia Beavert plays a role.

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Beavert, Virginia and Joana Jansen 2013 Agent case marking in SahaptianFunctional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey, Thornes, Tim, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop and Joana Jansen (eds.), pp. 131–152 | Article
The two languages of the Sahaptian language family, Ichishkíin/Sahaptin and Nez Perce, have split ergative case marking. Only third person agents take ergative case marking, never SAP agents. The Ichishkíin system is further split: one of two ergative makers is used depending on whether the patient… read more