Fluid Ergativity in Gujarati
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Description: Study by Peter Hook and Bharati Modi of ergativity (special way of subject marking in nominals) in Gujarati, with bibliography.
The two case-marking patterns most commonly found among the world's languages are the nominative-accusative and the ergative-absolutive. In the first, case-marking (or agreement in the verb) groups the subjects of intransitives together with the subjects of transitives as a single morphosyntactic category in opposition to transitive direct objects. In some of its pronouns, English shows this pattern:
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