Table of Contents

1. The acquisition of ergativity (by Stoll, Sabine); 2. Ergativity: Some recurrent themes (by Comrie, Bernard); 3. Ergativity in child Basque (by Austin, Jennifer R.); 4. The acquisition of ergativity in Inuktitut (by Allen, Shanley E.M.); 5. The acquisition of ergative case in Warlpiri (by Bavin, Edith L.); 6. The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea) (by Rumsey, Allan); 7. The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang (by Stoll, Sabine); 8. Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speech (by Narasimhan, Bhuvana); 9. The acquisition of split-ergative case marking in Kurmanji Kurdish (by Mahalingappa, Laura J.); 10. The acquisition of agreement in four Mayan languages (by Brown, Penelope); 11. The acquisition of extended ergativity in Mam, Q'anjob'al and Yucatec (by Pye, Clifton); 12. Index

Reviews

This important and path-breaking book will be a treat for researchers who work on ergativity. And psychologists who find it difficult to imagine alternative universes will be taken on a voyage of discovery, led by skilled guides. Prevailing acquisition models are challenged by the diversity of ergative systems. This book presents the diversity clearly enough to stimulate new thinking about child language, as well as linguistic universals.
*Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley*