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Publication details [#5280]

Kalmar, Ivan. 1979. The antipassive and grammatical relations in Eskimo. In Plank, Frans, ed. Ergativity: Towards a theory of grammatical relations. Academic Press. pp. 117–143.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

anti-passive construction | context | ergative construction | grammatical relation | relational grammar

Language as a subject

Eskimo

Annotation

K. tries to show that the antipassive and the ergative constructions in Eskimo are determined by meaning and context factors, and therefore that the purely syntactic treatment of these constructions in relational grammar is inadequate.