Readings for Ling 640X(2)---The Syntax of Ergative Languages
I. Transitivity and Ergativity
Week 1
8/27/02 (Tuesday): Organizational Meeting
8/29/02
(Thursday):
Manning, Christopher D. 1996. Ergativity: Argument structure
and grammatical relations. Dissertations in Linguistics. Stanford: Center
for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Pp. 1-77 (Chapter 1).
Week 2
9/3/02 (Tuesday):
Hopper, Paul J., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1980. Transitivity in
grammar and discourse. Language 56 (2):251-299.
9/5/02
(Thursday):
Gibson, Jeanne D., and Stanley Starosta. 1990. Ergativity east
and west. In Linguistic change and reconstruction methodology, ed.
by Philip Baldi, 195-210. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Week 3
9/10/02 (Tuesday): Lexicase Dependency Grammar
Starosta, Stanley. 1997. Formosan clause structure: Transitivity,
ergativity, and case marking. In Chinese languages and linguistics IV:
Typological studies of languages in China, ed. by Chiu-yu Tseng, 125-154.
Taipei: Academia Sinica.
9/12/02
(Thursday): Lexicase Dependency Grammar
Starosta, Stanley. 1998. Ergativity, transitivity, and clitic
coreference in four Western Austronesian languages. In Case, typology
and grammar, ed. by Anna Siewierska and Jae Jung Song, 277-307.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
II. Case Study: Philippine Languages
Week 4
9/17/02 (Tuesday):
Guest Lecture: “Viewing Philippine Languages in Focus and Out
of Focus”, by Professor Lawrence A. Reid.
9/19/02
(Thursday): Relational Grammar
Gerdts, Donna B. 1988. Antipassives and causatives in Ilokano:
Evidence for an ergative analysis. In Studies in Austronesian Linguistics,
ed. by Richard McGinn, 295-321. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center
for Southeast Asia Studies.
Week 5
9/24/02 (Tuesday): Relational Grammar
Blake, Barry J. 1988. Tagalog and Manila-Mt Isa axis. La Trobe
Working Papers in Linguistics 1:77-90.
9/26/02
(Thursday): Discourse Analysis
Cooreman, A., B. Fox, and T. Givon. 1984. The discourse definition
of ergativity. Studies in Language 8 (1):1-34.
Week 6
10/1/02 (Tuesday): Discourse Analysis (general, not Philippines)
Du Bois, John W. 1987. The discourse basis of ergativity. Language
63 (4):805-855.
10/3/02
(Thursday): Discourse Analysis (Philippines)
Mithun, Marianne. 1994. The implications of ergativity for a Philippine
voice system. In Voice: Form and function, ed. by Barbara Fox and
Paul J. Hopper, 247-277. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Publishing Company.
Week 7
10/8/02 (Tuesday): Principles and Parameters
Maclachlan, Anna E. 1996. Aspects of ergativity in Tagalog.
Ph.D. dissertation, McGill University, Montreal. Pp. 1-149 (Chapters 1-4).
10/10/02
(Thursday): “Fluid” Voice System
Shibatani, Masayoshi. 1988. Voice in Philippine languages. In
Passive and voice, ed. by Masayoshi Shibatani, 85-142. Amsterdam
and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
III. Split Ergativity
Week 8
10/15/02 (Tuesday):
Dixon, R. M. W. 1994. Ergativity. Cambridge Studies in
Linguistics No. 69. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 70-110 (Chapter
4).
10/17/02
(Thursday):
DeLancey, Scott. 1981. An interpretation of split ergativity and
related patterns. Language 57 (3):626-657.
IV. Syntactic Ergativity and Subjecthood
Week 9
10/22/02 (Tuesday):
Keenan, Edward L. 1976. Towards a universal definition of "subject".
In Subject and Topic, ed. by Charles N. Li, 303-333. New York:
Academic Press.
10/24/02
(Thursday): Localist
Brainard, Sherri. 1996. Why the 'focused NP' is not the subject
in Philippine languages: Evidence from Karao. Philippine Journal of Linguistics
27 (1-2):1-47.
Brainard,
Sherri. 1997. Ergativity and grammatical relations in Karao. In Grammatical
relations: A functional perspective, ed. by T. Givon, 85-154.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Week 10
10/29/02 (Tuesday):
Anderson, Stephen R. 1976. On the notion of subject in ergative
languages. In Subject and topic, ed. by Charles N. Li, 1-23.
New York: Academic Press.
10/31/02
(Thursday): Role and Reference Grammar
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 1977. Ergativity and the universality
of subjects. Papers from the Thirteenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago
Linguistic Society (CLS) 13:689-705.
Van
Valin, Robert D., Jr. 1981. Grammatical relations in ergative languages.
Studies in Language 5 (3):361-394.
Week 11
11/5/02 (Tuesday): Holiday: Election Day
11/7/02 (Thursday):
Schachter, Paul. 1976. The subject in Philippine languages: Topic,
actor, actor-topic, or none of the above? In Subject and Topic, ed.
by Charles N. Li, 491-518. New York: Academic Press.
Week 12
11/12/02 (Tuesday):
Payne, Thomas E. 1982. Role and reference related subject properties
and ergativity in Yup'ik Eskimo and Tagalog. Studies in Language
6 (1):75-106.
11/14/02
(Thursday): Lexical Functional Grammar
Kroeger, Paul. 1993. Phrase structure and grammatical relations
in Tagalog. Dissertations in Linguistics. Stanford: Center for the Study
of Language and Information. Pp. 19-56 (Chapter 2).
Week 13
11/19/02 (Tuesday): HPSG
Wechsler, Stephen, and I Wayan Arka. 1998. Syntactic ergativity
in Balinese: An argument structure based theory. Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory 16:387-441.
11/21/02
(Thursday): Guest Lecture: “Syntactic ergativity in Tongan,” by Professor
Yuko Otsuka.
Otsuka, Yuko. 2001. Syntactic ergativity in Tongan. Oxford
University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics 6:
189-214.
V. The Origin of Ergativity
Week 14
11/26/02 (Tuesday):
Anderson, Stephen R. 1977. On mechanisms by which languages become
ergative. In Mechanisms of syntactic change, ed. by Charles Li, 317-363.
Austin: University of Texas Press.
11/28/02
(Thursday): Holiday: Thanksgiving Day
Week 15
12/3/02 (Tuesday):
Estival, Dominique, and John Myhill. 1988. Formal and functional
aspects of the development from passive to ergative systems. In Passive
and voice, ed. by Masayoshi Shibatani, 441-491. Amsterdam and
Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
12/5/02
(Thursday):
Trask, R. L. 1979. On the origins of ergativity. In Ergativity:
Towards a theory of grammatical relations, ed. by Frans Plank, 385-404.
London and New York: Academic Press.
Week 16
12/10/02 (Tuesday): Term paper presentation
12/12/02 (Thursday): Last class. Term paper presentation and general
discussion.