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Direct linkNarasimhan, Bhuvana – Journal of Child Language, 2005
Two construals of agency are evaluated as possible innate biases guiding case-marking in children. A BROAD construal treats agentive arguments of multi-participant and single-participant events as being similar. A NARROWER construal is restricted to agents of multi-participant events. In Hindi, ergative case-marking is associated with agentive…
Descriptors: Verbs, Indo European Languages, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Longitudinal Studies
