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• Benedini, Paola

Why the ergative subject is easily identifiable? The aim of this article is to demonstrate that also in ergative languages it is possible to identify that particular NP, which is the agent and, probably, indeed very often, the topic of high transitive clause. This NP is clearly signaled by the creative case marking and corresponds to the traditional nominative agent-subject regarding its semantic function. This hypothesis is possible only if you consider Dixon's definition of syntactic ergativity not satisfactory for some aspects.

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