Winfred P. Lehmann, Director :: PCL 5.112, 1 University Station S5490 :: Austin, TX 78712 :: 512-471-4566
Language Systems Indices
Indo-European Typology Project
Citation Record
Dixon, R.M.W. 1979. Ergativity. Language 55. 59-138.
CASE
- case
- case [absolutive]
- case [absolutive] [restricted]
- case [absolutive] [unmarked]
- case [absolutive vs. ergative]
- case [accusative]
- case [accusative] [marker of]
- case [accusative] [pronominal]
- case [accusative] [unmarked]
- case [agent]
- case assignment
- case [dative]
- case [instrumental]
- case marking
- case-marking languages
- case marking [split]
- case [nominal]
- case [nominal] [unmarked]
- case [nominative]
- case [nominative] [marked]
- case [nominative] [unmarked]
- case [non-agentive]
- case [O] [marked]
- case [unmarked]
CONTENT WORDS
- accessibility hierarchy
- affirmative
- bound split [vs. free split]
- conditioning [types of]
- constraint [language-specific]
- dual conditioning
- grammatical identification
- hierarchy [nominal]
- jussive
- markedness
- markedness [morphology]
- meta-split
- nasalization
- participant [core]
- participant [inanimate]
- phonological rules
- reflexive
- reflexive [purposeful]
- root
- root [nominal]
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY
- aspect
- auxiliary
- class [category of]
- dual
- gender
- gender [feminine]
- gender [masculine]
- interrogative [human]
- mood [imperative]
- negation
- number system [three-term]
- person
- tense
- tense [vs. aspect]
LANGUAGE CHANGE
LANGUAGE RECONSTRUCTION
LANGUAGE TYPE
- absolutive-ergative patterning
- accusative languages
- AVO languages
- AVO/SV languages
- Dyirbal-type split
- ergative [extended]
- ergative languages
- fluid-S-marking languages
- nominative-accusative languages
- nominative system [vs. accusative system]
- NP split
- number-conditioned split
- OVA/VS languages
- split ergativity
- VAO languages
- verb-conditioned split
- verb-medial languages
- VS languages
LANGUAGES
- Abaza
- Algonquian
- Arabana
- Australian
- Avar
- Balto-Fennic languages
- Basque
- Chinook
- Choctaw
- Cushitic languages
- Dyirbal
- Eskimo
- Finnish
- Georgian
- Germanic languages
- Greek
- Guarani
- Hindi
- Hokan languages
- Indo-European languages
- Iroquoian languages
- Japanese
- Lardil
- Latin
- Lithuanian
- Maidu
- Mandan
- Mojave
- Motu
- Murinypata
- Ngarluma
- Quechua
- Siouan languages
- Swahili
- Telugu
- Tibetan
- Tongan
- Uto-Aztecan languages
- Walbiri
- Wappo
- Yidin
- Yuman languages
LEXICON
METHODS, APPROACHES, AND HYPOTHESES
MORPHOLOGY
- affix [bound]
- affix [bound] [pronominal]
- affix [case]
- affix [cross-referencing]
- affix [derivational]
- affix [O]
- affix [positive]
- affix [verbal]
- clitic
- declension [nominal] [feminine]
- declension [nominal] [masculine]
- ergative marking
- ergativity [morphological]
- fluid-S marking
- inflection [accusative]
- inflection [case]
- inflection [case] [ergative-absolutive]
- inflection [case] [nominal]
- inflection [ergative]
- inflection [imperative]
- inflection [instrumental]
- inflection [nominal] [ergative]
- marker [subject]
- nominative marking
- NP [case marking]
- NP [particle-marking]
- prefix [A]
- prefix [bound]
- prefix [dative]
- prefix [non-zero]
- prefix [O]
- prefix [object]
- prefix [subject]
- prefix [verbal]
- special-A marking
- split-S marking
PARTS OF SPEECH
- adjective
- demonstrative
- noun [free-form]
- noun [inanimate]
- noun [neuter]
- postposition
- preposition
- pronoun [first person]
- pronoun [free]
- pronoun [nominative]
- verb [complement of]
- verb [controlled action vs. non-controlled action]
- verb [intransitive] [derived]
- verb [of volition]
- verb [stative]
- verb [stative] [root]
SEMANTICS
- action [controllable]
- agency [potential]
- agent
- agent [animate]
- agent [controlling]
- agent [human]
- controller
- initiator
- patient
- semantic explanations
- theme
SYNTAX
- antipassive
- biclausal construction
- clause [aspect]
- clause [tense]
- clause [transitive]
- complementation
- coordination
- coordination [rules of]
- coreferentiality condition
- cross-reference [partial]
- cross-reference [verbal]
- deep structure
- deictic
- ergativity
- ergativity [pure]
- ergativity [syntactic]
- function [A]
- function [derived]
- function [O]
- function [S]
- function [syntactic]
- function [syntactic-semantic]
- function [transitive]
- grammatical relations
- NP [core]
- NP [core] [intransitive]
- NP [core] [semantic nature of]
- object [direct]
- object [transitive]
- particle
- particle [coordinating]
- particle [ergative]
- particle [subject] [transitive]
- passivization
- primitive [universal syntactic-semantic]
- reference [human]
- reference [inanimate]
- reference [shifting]
- relational grammar
- semantico-syntactic relations
- Silverstein's NP hierarchy
- subject
- subject [intransitive verb]
- subject [surface]
- subject [transitive verb]
- subordination
- subordination [rules of]
- surface structure
- syntax [accusative]
- syntax [core constituents]
- syntax [ergative]
- topic
- transformation
- word order
- word order [contrastive]