Jessica Coon

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jessica Coon plays a role.

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Coon, Jessica, Pedro Mateo Pedro and Omer Preminger 2014 The role of case in A-bar extraction asymmetries: Evidence from Mayan Linguistic Variation 14:2, pp. 179–242 | Article
Many morphologically ergative languages display asymmetries in the extraction of core arguments: while absolutive arguments (transitive objects and intransitive subjects) extract freely, ergative arguments (transitive subjects) cannot. This falls under the label “syntactic ergativity” (see, e.g.… read more