His linguistic interests have extended beyond Australia, in work on south East Asian languages where he has shown the phenomenon of ergativity is much more widespread than had previously been thought.
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Example of syntactic ergativity in the " conjunction reduction " construction ( coordinated clauses ) in Dyirbal in contrast with English conjunction reduction . ( The subscript ( i ) indicates coreference .)
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Whether Roviana is an ergative language or not is argumentative, however, relative clauses in this language can be categorised by ergativity, so it can be described as an ergative language.
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Kusunda has several cases, marked on nouns and pronouns; here we illustrate three, nominative ( Kusunda, unlike its neighbors, has no ergativity ), genitive, and persons.
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One of the primary differences between the Tzeltalan and the Ch'ol languages today is that while the Ch'ol languages feature split ergativity, the Tzeltalan languages are fully morphologically ergative.
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Adjective complements of N-V LVCs always show agreement with the undergoer of the action of the verb, which is in turn marked in accordance with Pashto s system of split ergativity.
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Yet other languages behave ergatively only in some contexts ( this " split ergativity " is often based on the grammatical person of the arguments or on the tense / aspect of the verb ).
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As another example, the linguist Larry Trask argues that the ergative case system of the Basque language is not a simple binary parameter, and that different languages can have different levels of ergativity.
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Georgian has often been said to exhibit split ergativity; morphologically speaking, it is said that it mostly behaves like an ergative absolutive language in the Series II ( " aorist " ) screeves.
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McGregor ( 2010 ) gives a range of contexts when we often see optional ergativity, and argues that the choice is often not truly " optional " but is affected by semantics and pragmatics.
