I ERGATIVITY -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Ergative Languages -- 1.2. Ergativity and Grammatical Functions -- 1.3. Split Ergativity -- 2. Morphological and Syntactic Ergativity -- 2.1. Types of Ergativity -- 2.2. Morphological Ergativity: the Morphological Hypothesis -- 2.3. Syntactically Ergative Languages -- 2.4. A Critical Review of the Two Hypotheses -- 3. Unaccusativity and Ergativity -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Ergativity in Accusative Languages -- 3.3. Ergativity and Passive -- 3.4. Syntactic Ergativity and Structural Case -- 4. Ergative Typology -- 4.1. Unaccusativity and its Consequences -- 4.2. Dyirbal -- 4.3. Inuit -- 4.4. Properties of Georgian -- 5. Conclusion -- II WORD-CLASSES IN INUIT -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. General Remarks -- 1.2. Lexical Categories -- 2. Verbs -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Verb Classes -- 2.3. Detransitivization and Transitivization -- 2.4. Overview -- 3. Nouns -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Nominalizations -- 4. Adjectives -- 5. Prepositions (Case-Morphology) -- 6. Major Category Classification in Inuit -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The Lack of Adjectives -- 6.3. Oblique Case-Morphology and Prepositions -- 6.4. Conclusion -- 7. Other Categories -- III X'-AFFIXES AND CO-GOVERNMENT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reanalysis Structures and Co-Analysis -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Co-Analysis and PRO -- 3. Co-Government -- 3.1. Government and Co-Government -- 3.2. English Pseudo-Passives -- 3.3. French Causatives -- 3.4. Dutch Verb Raising -- 4. Co-government and Adjacency -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Obligatory Adjacency -- 4.3. Conclusion -- 5. Reanalysis Units as Thematic Complexes -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. I and V in English and French -- 5.3. Thematic Complexes -- 5.4. Governing Heads -- 5.5. I and V in Dutch -- 6. The Analysis of Inuit NPs -- 6.1. X'-Affixes and Reanalysis -- 5.2. Non-Oblique NPs (NIPs).

6.3. Oblique NPs (PPs) -- IV THE MORPHOLOGICAL ERGATIVITY OF INUIT -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introductory Remarks -- 1.2. CP in Inuit -- 1.3. The Argument Status of the Absolutive and the Ergative NP -- 2. Arguments for Morphological Ergativity -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Word Order -- 2.3. Manipulation of Arguments -- 2.4. The Interaction of Reflexives, Passives and Antipassives -- 2.5. The Dative-Shift Construction in Central Arctic -- 2.6. Anaphoric Binding -- 2.7. Noun Incorporation -- 2.8. Verb Incorporation -- 2.9. PRO -- 3. The Morphological Ergativity of Inuit -- 3.1. Summary of the Arguments for Morphological Ergativity -- 3.2. Structural Properties of Subjects and Objects -- 3.3. On the Structure of Inuit Clauses -- V THE INUIT CASE SYSTEM -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphological Aspects of Inflection -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Mood Morphology -- 2.3. Third Person Agreement -- 2.4. First and Second Person Agreement -- 2.5. Summary of Indicative Agreement-Morphology -- 2.6. I and the Modules of Grammar -- 3. Case-Assignment in Simplex Clauses -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Absolutive in Intransitive IPs -- 3.3. Ergative -- 3.4. Genitive in Gerundials -- 3.5. The Case of the Direct Object -- 3.7. Conclusion -- 4. Case-assignment in Complex Clauses -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Subject Control -- 4.3. Raising -- 4.4. Object Control -- 4.5. Causative/ECM -- 4.6. Conclusions -- 5. Case-Assignment in Syntactic Nominalizations -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. -niq and -vvik nominalizations -- 5.3. -suq and -saq Nominalizations -- VI ACCUSATIVE CASE IN INUIT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Standard Analysis of the Antipassive -- 2.1. Antipassive and Language Typology -- 2.2. Zubizarreta (1985) -- 2.3. Causative/ECM Constructions -- 3. Baker's Noun-Incorporation Analysis of the Antipassive -- 4. Modalis as Accusative Case -- 4.1. Introduction.

4.2. Non-Oblique Modalis NPs -- 4.3. The Antipassive as a Nominative-Accusative Construction -- 4.4. Accusative and Burzio's Generalization -- 4.5. The Optionality of the Accusative NP -- 4.6. Accusative NPs and Indefiniteness -- 4.7. Conclusion -- 5. Antipassive Suffixes -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Antipassive Suffixes as Auxiliaries -- 6. Conclusion: The Dual Case-Pattern of Inuit -- A Notes -- B References.