Subject Properties and Ergativity in North Russian and Lithuanian
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The goal of this paper is to resolve an apparent mismatch between the morphology and grammatical function of the subject and object NPs of the North Russian (NR) and Lithuanian (Lith) nonagreeing constructions in (1-2) below. On the surface, this construction consists of i) a nonagreeing participle functioning as the main predicate, ii) a preverbal oblique (or PP) constituent, and iii) a nominative object:
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