@inbook{297549cb40294a4e9d33453fdeafc905,
title = "Grammaticalization and Strategies in Resolving Subject Marking Paradoxes: The Case of Tsimshianic",
abstract = "This paper presents a case study of what we will call ergative/nominative paradoxes, which we claim are found in the Tsimshianic language family, but which are possibly found in other languages as well. Such paradoxes are said to arise when both nominative and ergative morphology is simultaneously indexed or related to the same subject. Although these languages manifest this subject marking paradox in different ways, we conjecture that the paradox itself is the result of an ergative system decaying into an accusative one, and that one strategy for languages to relieve the pressure of such a paradox is to develop new paradigms of differential subject marking.",
keywords = "Accusative Case, Case Marker, Common Noun, Proper Noun, Semantic Role",
author = "Jason Brown and Tyler Peterson",
note = "Funding Information: 1 The Tsimshianic languages are spoken on the northwest coast of Canada almost entirely in the province of British Columbia and in adjacent areas of the interior and Alaska. Examples not cited are from original fieldwork. Thanks go to Henry Davis, Martina Wiltschko, our language consultants, Mrs. Doreen Jensen, Mrs. Barbara Sennott, and the audiences at California State University, Fresno and at the Workshop on Differential Subject Marking (Nijmegen, 2004). Funding for this research was provided by grants from The Phillips Fund for Native American Research of the American Philosophical Society, awarded to each of the authors. The authors{\textquoteright} names appear in alphabetical order. All errors are our own. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2009, Springer.",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-4020-6497-5_10",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "223--245",
booktitle = "Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory",
}