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Publication details [#10594]

Cooreman, Ann. 1988. Ergativity in Dyirbal discourse. Linguistics 26 : 717–746.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse organization | ergativity | narrative

Language as a subject

Dyirbal

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

A study of ergativity in Dyirbal, a language of North Queensland, Australia. On the basis of numerical data taken from narratives, it is argued that syntactic ergativity has few implications at the level of discourse organization.