RT Journal Article
T1 Nominative and ergative languages : towards a unified of case checking
A1 Cocchi, Gloria
AB This paper offers an analysis of Nominative and Ergative Case systems inthe spirit of Chomsky's (1995, 1998) Minimalist Program. In particular.Chom$ky's elimination of AGR from the inventory of admissiblefunctional heads leads to a re-discussion of most generative analyses onErgativity, which were crucially based on the role played by AGR-heads.In this work I will show that the two Case systems can merely be seenas the outcome of a principle of Economy which establishes that onlyone Case in a transitive sentence needs to be marked. In other words,the crucial point is not which Case is checked in an unaccusative clause,as traditionally assumed, but rather which of the two Cases is marked ina transitive clause. To test the validity of my proposal, I will discuss mostof the phenomena commonly linked with Ergativity, while bringingtogether data from a wide inventory of different languages.
YR 2010
FD 2010-04-28T10:40:43Z
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/3201
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/3201
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 14 jul 2026