Damián E. Blasi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Damián E. Blasi is involved.
Article
2025 Discourse ergativity and human reference in Basque Studies in Language 49:3, pp. 682–711 | Article
One possible usage-based motivation for ergative alignment in grammars is the reference-establishing function shared by the sole argument of intransitives and the patient argument of transitives. Here we test this hypothesis, known as Preferred Argument Structure, against discourse data from… read more
