Publications

Publication details [#3419]

Foster, J.F. 1979. Agents, accessories and owners: The cultural base and the rise of ergative structures, with particular reference to Ozark English. In Plank, Frans, ed. Ergativity: Towards a theory of grammatical relations. Academic Press. pp. 489–510.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
culture | ergative construction | functional explanation
Language as a subject
English, Ozark

Annotation

A pragmatic-semantic explanation for some syntactic phenomena, in particular the rise of ergative constructions in Ozark English.