Animacy and markedness in universal grammar
Part of : Γλωσσολογία ; Vol.2-3, 1983, pages 7-20
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Due to the interaction of lexical and grammatical semantics, there are many languages which show a split in the marking of grammatical categories according to the animacy hierarchy. Split ergativity of the wetl-known Dyirbal type is a case in point. This type of split can be shown to be a combination of 'differential subject marking' (DSM) with 'differential object marking' (DOM). Empirical research in the domain of Australian, Austronesian, and Sino-Tibetan languages leads to the conclusion that DSM never occurs in isolation, i.e. without DOM, whereas DOM may well stand alone, and indeed does so very frequently. Markendness splits based on animacy are not distributed symmetrically. DOM is 'dominant', DSM is 'recessive.
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