Argument hierarchies and the mapping principle

Eloise Jelinek · Andrew Carnie

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As is well known, in many languages–such as Lummi and Dyirbal–we find a split in case marking, where third person and other non-local arguments take an Ergative/Absolutive marking, and local persons (1st and 2nd persons) take a Nominative/Accusative pattern. Argument

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