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Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax Ser.: Deconstructing Ergativity : Two Types of Ergative Languages and Their Features by Maria Polinsky (2016, Trade Paperback)

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A simple explanation for that has to do with the idea that ergative languages, much as their nominative-accusativecounterparts, do not form a uniform class. In this book, Maria Polinsky argues that ergative languages instantiate two main types, the one where the ergative subject is a prepositional phrase (PP-ergatives) and the one with a noun-phrase ergative.