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Subject, Voice and Ergativity: Selected Essays.
Three papers on Japanese account for roughly one-quarter of the bulk of this collection of eleven studies by as many authors; others treat Nivkh, Evenki, Turkish, Sinhala, Tagalog, Georgian, and Balochi, along with (in the final paper), "many languages." An anonymous introduction (pp. 1-6) describes them as "eleven papers which relate to a seminar on language typology held at SOAS in 1988-89," and goes on to acknowledge "a research grant from the Leverhulme Trust [that] enabled us to study the work of the Leningrad Group for the Typological Study of Languages and to make some of it accessible in English transl...
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