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Publication details [#28003]
Dixon, R.M.W. 1994. Ergativity. (Cambridge studies in linguistics 69). Cambridge University Press. xvii + 271 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
ISBN
0 521 44898 0
Annotation
In this book, D. updates the description of ergative phenomena and proposes his arguments for 'syntactic-semantic primitives', the syntactic function of 'pivot', and the universal 'subject'-category', using data from a wide range of languages, including South American languages.