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# Poster Presentation for "Ergative Anaphors and High Absolutive Syntax"

Preferred citation (DataCite format):

  Brodkin, Dan; Royer, Justin (2021).
  Poster Presentation for "Ergative Anaphors and High Absolutive Syntax".
  University of Arizona Research Data Repository.
  Poster. https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481858


Corresponding Author:
  Dan Brodkin, University of California Santa Cruz, ddbrodki@ucsc.edu


License:
  CC BY 4.0


DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481858



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## Summary

This poster was presented on 2021 April 8 - 11 at the
[39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics](https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/).  

Provided abstract:  
Ergative languages often do not allow reflexive anaphors to be external
arguments. The literature has taken this as evidence against the High
Absolutive analysis of syntactic ergativity, on which the absolutive argument
moves to a high position. This argument does not go through: in High
Absolutive languages, patterns of anaphor binding conflict with other
diagnostics for hierarchical asymmetry. This fact shows that the distribution
of reflexive anaphors is governed by independent constraints.



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## Additional Notes

Links:
  - https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/

This presentation is part of the 2021 West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics collection, which is available here:
https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.c.5325401