Typological disharmony and ergativity in Guajajara

Split ergativity in Nepali and its typological significance

Subject preference and ergativity

This paper presents the first-ever processing experiment on relativization in Avar, an ergative language with prenominal relatives. The results show no processing difference between the ergative subject gap and the absolutive object gap. The absolutive subject gap, however, is processedmuch faster. We propose a principled explanation for this result. On the one hand, Avar has a subject preferen...

Dislocation, Clustering and Disharmony

Discontinuities come in different flavours. In minimalistic and previous editions of the generative enterprise, long distance dependencies and discontinutities resulting from verb clustering are analyzed in quite different terms. This paper analyzes wh-structures and crossing dependencies as emanations of a single modalized regime of composition in a combinatory categorial setting.

Marital Disharmony in Neurotics

The present study examines the hypothesis that there would be significant differences between neurotics and normals, and between spouses of neurotics and spouses of normals, with regard to marital disharmony and some of its components as measured by the Dyadic Adjustment Scale. The results supported the hypothesis, with neurotics and their spouses indicating that their marriage are disturbed in...

Ergativity in Austronesian Languages

Within the Austronesian family, many languages are classified as ergative (e.g., Samoan) or as having some ergative properties (e.g., Tagalog). For one particular language to exhibit some but not all of the characteristics of ergativity is problematic for an ergativity macroparameter. The same issue arises when looking at these languages from an accusative perspective: how do we account for the...