Ergativity and the active-stative typology in Loma

Ergativity would seem to be non-existant or at least quite rare in Africa. This lack, however, may be related to another continent-wide areal phenomenon: there is a paucity of morphological NP case marking according to either ergative or accusative typologies. It is thus possible that other more sub...

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Autor principal:	Noel Rude
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1983
Materias:	ergativity case typology Mande Lorna pronouns Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bafa6979e2454e7c80b54cf58399907f2021-11-19T03:55:38ZErgativity and the active-stative typology in Loma10.32473/sal.v14i3.1075260039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/bafa6979e2454e7c80b54cf58399907f1983-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107526https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XErgativity would seem to be non-existant or at least quite rare in Africa. This lack, however, may be related to another continent-wide areal phenomenon: there is a paucity of morphological NP case marking according to either ergative or accusative typologies. It is thus possible that other more subtle attributes of the ergative organization of syntax are what should be sought in Africa. For example, in the Mande languages, as also in Celtic, phonological decay has produced a series of word initial consonant alternations. In Celtic these have come to function as part of a nominative-accusative case marking strategy. The situation is quite similar in Mande, but as this paper details for Lorna, the noun case system is ergative-absolute. And, accordingly, the pronoun system has active-stative characteristics.Noel RudeLibraryPress@UFarticleergativitycasetypologyMandeLornapronounsPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 14, Iss 3 (1983)
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description	Ergativity would seem to be non-existant or at least quite rare in Africa. This lack, however, may be related to another continent-wide areal phenomenon: there is a paucity of morphological NP case marking according to either ergative or accusative typologies. It is thus possible that other more subtle attributes of the ergative organization of syntax are what should be sought in Africa. For example, in the Mande languages, as also in Celtic, phonological decay has produced a series of word initial consonant alternations. In Celtic these have come to function as part of a nominative-accusative case marking strategy. The situation is quite similar in Mande, but as this paper details for Lorna, the noun case system is ergative-absolute. And, accordingly, the pronoun system has active-stative characteristics.
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title	Ergativity and the active-stative typology in Loma
title_short	Ergativity and the active-stative typology in Loma
title_full	Ergativity and the active-stative typology in Loma
title_fullStr	Ergativity and the active-stative typology in Loma
title_full_unstemmed	Ergativity and the active-stative typology in Loma
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Ergativity and the active-stative typology in Loma

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