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Local Case, Cyclic Agree and the Syntax of Truly Ergative Verbs

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Abstract

In this paper, I argue that German shows a phenomenon formally akin to an ergative split. While transitive verbs as in (1a) show a NOM/ACC case pattern with the external argument marked nominative and the internal argument marked accusative (cf. 1b), it can be shown that

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