{"product_id":"aspects-of-split-ergativity-9780199858743","title":"Aspects of Split Ergativity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jessica Coon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Grammar \u0026amp; Punctuation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn languages with aspect-based split ergativity, one portion of the grammar follows an ergative pattern, while another shows a \"split.\" In this book, Jessica Coon argues that aspectual split ergativity does not mark a split in how case is assigned, but rather, a split in sentence structure. Specifically, the contexts in which we find the appearance of a nonergative pattern in an otherwise ergative language involve added structure--a disassociation between the syntactic predicate and the stem carrying the lexical verb stem. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book begins with an analysis of split person marking patterns in Chol, a Mayan language of southern Mexico. Here appearance of split ergativity follows naturally from the fact that the progressive and the imperfective morphemes are \u003cem\u003everbs\u003c\/em\u003e, while the perfective morpheme is not. The fact that the nonperfective morphemes are verbs, combined with independent properties of Chol grammar, results in the appearance of a split. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book further surveys aspectual splits in a variety of unrelated languages and offers an explanation for the universal directionality of split ergativity: in splits, ergativity is always retained in the perfective aspect. Following Laka's (2006) proposal for Basque, Coon proposes that the cross-linguistic tendency for imperfective aspects to pattern with \u003cem\u003elocative\u003c\/em\u003e constructions is responsible for the biclausality which causes the appearance of a nonergative pattern. Building on Demirdache and Uribe-Etxebarria's (2000) prepositional account of spatiotemporal relations, Coon proposes that the perfective is never periphrastic--and thus never involves a split--because there is no preposition in natural language that correctly captures the relation of the \u003cem\u003eassertion time\u003c\/em\u003e to the \u003cem\u003eevent time\u003c\/em\u003e denoted by the perfective aspect.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47969604927639,"sku":"9780199858743","price":14643.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199858743.webp?v=1782922751","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/aspects-of-split-ergativity-9780199858743","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}