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
Nichols, Johanna. 1990. Some Preconditions and Typical Traits of the Stative-Active Language Type with Reference to Indo-European. In: Language Typology 1987. Systematic Balance in Language. Winfred P. Lehmann, ed. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 95-113.
CASE
CONTENT WORDS
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY
- gender [category of]
- gender [grammaticalized]
- number [category of]
- possession [alienable vs. inalienable]
- possession [alienable vs. inalienable] [Indo-European]
LANGUAGE RECONSTRUCTION
- Indo-European
- Indo-European [homeland]
- linguistic reconstruction
- Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Indo-European [reconstruction of]
- Proto-Indo-European [stative-active language]
- protolanguage
LANGUAGE TYPE
- accusative languages
- active languages [vs. stative languages]
- ergative languages
- ergative languages [dependent-marking]
- head-marking languages
- isolating language
- isolating language [accusative]
- split system
LANGUAGES
- American Indian languages
- Anatolian languages
- Australian languages
- Bantu languages
- Nakh-Daghestanian languages
- Sino-Tibetan languages
- Yuman languages
LEXICON
- active [vs. stative]
- animacy
- animacy [grammaticalized]
- doublet [verbal]
- kinship relations [nouns referring to]
METHODS, APPROACHES, AND HYPOTHESES
MORPHOLOGY
- accusativity [morphological]
- agreement [verbal]
- ergativity [morphological]
- fluid-S marking
- inflection [nominal]
- split marking
- split-S marking
- suffix
- suffix [absolute]
PARTS OF SPEECH
- noun [referring to body parts]
- noun [referring to kinship relations]
- pronoun
- pronoun [first person]
- verb [doublet]
- verb [intransitive]
- verb [intransitive] [stative-active inflection]
- verb [transitive]
- verb [transitive] [accusative]
- verb [transitive] [ergative]
SEMANTICS
SYNTAX
- accusativity
- alignment [types of]
- asymmetry
- asymmetry [alignment type]
- clause [alignment of]
- ergativity
- subject [transitive verb]
- word order