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Publication details [#5509]

Kibrik, A.E. 1979. Canonical ergativity and Daghestan languages. In Plank, Frans, ed. Ergativity: Towards a theory of grammatical relations. Academic Press. pp. 61–77.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

On the influence of the situational, communicative, and speech act components on the coding of the actants of a predicate. An attempt to use this conception for explaining ergativity, in particular in Archi, a Daghestan language.