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- Title
On Ergativity and Accusativity in Proto-Polynesian and Proto--Central Pacific.
- Authors
Ball, Douglas
- Abstract
This paper continues the debate begun over three decades ago about the nature of the case-marking system of Proto-Polynesian, whether it possessed an ergative or an accusative system. After consideration of extra-Polynesian comparative evidence, putative counterexamples in some Polynesian pronominal systems, and the history of the current accusative marking, it finds in favor of the accusative system view.
- Subjects
PROTO-Polynesian language; POLYNESIAN languages; OCEANIC languages; PROTO-Oceanic language; ERGATIVE constructions; CASE (Grammar); CASE grammar; PRONOMINALS (Grammar)
- Publication
Oceanic Linguistics, 2007, Vol 46, Issue 1, p128
- ISSN
0029-8115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ol.2007.0014