Split-ergativity in Nuristani languages
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I give a preliminary analysis of split-ergativity in Nuristani languages and, in a second step, briefly discuss what this data means for some new generative approaches to split-ergativity laid out by Coon (e.g. 2013) and others. While this research is an ongoing process, it already becomes clear that split-ergativity in Nuristani exhibits differences from split-ergative constructions found in other, related and geographically close, Indo-Iranian languages. Additionally, the non-ergative alignment in the Nuristani and Iranian languages discussed here cannot easily be reanalyzed as an ergative cross-referencing pattern – which Coon has argued for regarding languages and language families such as Basque, Mayan and Indo-Aryan.
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