Deconstructing Ergativity - Polinsky, Maria (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park)

Building upon theoretical innovations and extensive empirical findings, this book explains variation in the syntactic behavior of ergative arguments across languages. It offers a new analysis of ergativity by recognizing two distinct types, PP-ergative- and DP-ergative-languages. Each type is characterized by a set of correlated features which result in structural consistency.