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Condition Bias in Split-Alignment Systems: A Typological Study of North American Languages ...
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Hicks, Caleb. - : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School, 2015
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This dissertation is a study of the strategies employed in the indigenous languages of North America for distinguishing grammatical subjects from grammatical objects. The degree to which intransitive subjects, transitive subjects, and direct objects are the same or different in their form is a property known as alignment. An interesting feature of alignment is that the sameness or difference of subjects and objects can vary according to certain grammatical conditions. This phenomenon, known as split-alignment, has been the focus of linguistic investigation from a range of theoretical perspectives since the 1970s. It is frequently remarked that some grammatical conditions are more likely than others to induce split-alignment. In this study, I survey fifteen indigenous North American languages in order to (a) determine all the grammatical conditions responsible for splitting alignment systems in these languages; and (b) identify the factors contributing to the preponderance of certain conditions over others. ...
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FOS Languages and literature; Linguistics; Native American studies
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17615/ws86-q754
https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/dissertations/nz805z74v?locale=en
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A dual-structure analysis of morphosyntactic doubling in code switching
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Hicks, Caleb. - : Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012
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