Ergative languages favour SENT and SENT-POSS ANCs and disfavour POSS-ACC and NOMN ones.
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IF there is ergative alignment, THEN action nominalizations are likely to be of the SENT or SENT-POSS types and unlikely to be of the POSS-ACC or NOMN types.
1. In other words, ergative languages favour retention of sentential marking by the Agent and disfavour its genitivization. For an explanation see Kibrik 1987: 135, as cited in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: 241.2. DEFINITIONS:Sentential (SENT) type (of nominalization): all arguments in ANCs retain their sentential dependent marking.Sentential Possessive Subtype (SENT-POSS) of the ergative-possessive type (ERG-POSS) of those nominalization types where the A retains its sentential marking. Possessive-Accusative (POSS-ACC) type: the S and the A in ANCs genitivize, while the P retains sentential dependent-marking.Nominal (NOMN) type: all the arguments in ANCs assimilate to dependents in non-derived NPs.
1. In other words, ergative languages favour retention of sentential marking by the Agent and disfavour its genitivization. For an explanation see Kibrik 1987: 135, as cited in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993: 241.2. DEFINITIONS:Sentential (SENT) type (of nominalization): all arguments in ANCs retain their sentential dependent marking.Sentential Possessive Subtype (SENT-POSS) of the ergative-possessive type (ERG-POSS) of those nominalization types where the A retains its sentential marking. Possessive-Accusative (POSS-ACC) type: the S and the A in ANCs genitivize, while the P retains sentential dependent-marking.Nominal (NOMN) type: all the arguments in ANCs assimilate to dependents in non-derived NPs.