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Ergativity

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Ergativity. By R.M.W.Dixon. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 69.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxii, 271.

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Alice C. Harris
Alice C. Harris*
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Vanderbilt University
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Program in Linguistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235 [harrisac@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu]
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Language , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 359 - 374
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