Subjects, objects and relativization in Japhug

Guillaume Jacques (1)

1 CRLAO - Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale

Japhug is a language with ergative alignment on NP arguments and direct-inverse verbal indexation. However, this article, through a detailed description of relativizing constructions in Japhug, shows the existence of accusative pivots and proposes an unambiguous definition of 'subjects' and 'objects' in this language.

Mots clés: Japhug; Relativization; Subject; Object; Syntactic

Domaines: Linguistique

Guillaume Jacques. Subjects, objects and relativization in Japhug. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2016, 44 (1), pp.1-28. ⟨10.1353/jcl.2016.0005⟩. ⟨halshs-01287472⟩