Discourse and Pragmatic Functions of the Dalabon ‘Ergative’ Case-markerFootnote^*

* This article is a revision of Ellison Luk's Honours thesis ‘Optionality in Grammatical Structure: The discourse basis of ergative case-marking in Dalabon’. It is dedicated to Maggie Tukumba, who provided most of the data for this article and many others on Dalabon, and who sadly passed away as we were working on our final draft. We are also immensely grateful to the other Dalabon speakers who contributed data to this study. Finally, we extend our thanks to our two anonymous reviewers, and Jean-Christophe Verstraete, who all gave invaluable advice in the preparation of this draft.

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