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On ergativity in Bumthang

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dc.contributor.authorDonohue, Cathryn
dc.contributor.authorDonohue, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-29T22:54:10Z
dc.date.available2018-11-29T22:54:10Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2018-11-29T07:58:05Z
dc.description.abstractThis report investigates the uses of the ergative case marker in transitive clauses in Bumthang, a language of Central Bhutan. We discuss the conditions under which the ergative is required and show that a simple analysis involving multiple influences models the data. Previous studies have shown that variable case marking may be determined by syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic factors, but in Bumthang we see that all of these factors play a role in determining the use of the ergative case marker.We hope that our analysis will prove useful for understanding the variable uses of the ergative case marker in Himalayan and other languages as well as providing interesting challenges for formal models of case marking
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0097-8507
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/152693
dc.publisherLinguistic Society of America
dc.sourceLanguage (Washington)
dc.titleOn ergativity in Bumthang
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage188
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage179
local.contributor.affiliationDonohue, Cathryn, University of Hong Kong and Australian National University
local.contributor.affiliationDonohue, Mark, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidDonohue, Cathryn, u3497070
local.contributor.authoruidDonohue, Mark, u3429192
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor200408 - Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
local.identifier.absfor200405 - Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
local.identifier.absseo950201 - Communication Across Languages and Culture
local.identifier.absseo970120 - Expanding Knowledge in Languages, Communication and Culture
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5567033xPUB116
local.identifier.citationvolume92
local.identifier.doi10.1353/lan.2016.0004
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84962394060
local.identifier.thomsonID000371846200006
local.type.statusPublished Version

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