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
Rumsey, Alan. 1987. The Chimera of Proto-Indo-European Ergativity. Lingua 71: 297-318.
CASE
- case
- case [absolutive]
- case [accusative]
- case [ergative]
- case [ergative-absolutive]
- case [genitive]
- case [local]
- case marking
- case marking [ergative-absolutive]
- case marking [ergative languages]
- case marking [neutral]
- case marking [nominative-accusative]
- case-marking systems
- case marking [three-way]
- case marking [zero marking vs. non-zero marking] [Indo-European]
- case [nominative]
- case [nominative vs. accusative] [morphological distinction]
- case [oblique]
- case [strong]
- case syncretism
- case [vocative]
CONTENT WORDS
- ablaut
- analogy
- feature hierarchy
- lexical hierarchy
- markedness
- uniformitarianism
- universals
- universals [implicational]
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY
LANGUAGE CHANGE
- language evolution
- language evolution [ergative to accusative] [Indo-European]
- linguistic innovation
LANGUAGE RECONSTRUCTION
- ergative construction [origin in nominalized verbs]
- ergativity [Proto-Indo-European]
- Indo-European
- Indo-European [branches of]
- Indo-European [change to nominative-accusative system]
- linguistic reconstruction
- linguistic reconstruction [comparative]
- linguistic reconstruction [morphosyntax]
- linguistic reconstruction [old ergative marker]
- linguistic residues
- linguistic residues [ergative marker]
- Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Indo-European [early stages of] [ergativity]
- protolanguage
LANGUAGE TYPE
LANGUAGES
- Australian languages
- Avar
- Basque
- Caucasian languages
- Cushitic languages
- Dyirbal
- English
- Eskimo
- French
- Georgian
- Greek
- Greek [Ancient]
- Hittite
- Indo-European languages
- Indo-Iranian languages
- Latin
- Russian
- Sanskrit
LEXICON
- animate noun [vs. inanimate noun]
- animate noun [vs. inanimate noun] [case marking] [Indo-European]
- suppletion [stem]
LINGUISTIC CONSTRUCTIONS
METHODS, APPROACHES, AND HYPOTHESES
- ergative hypothesis [Indo-European]
- Neo-Grammarians
- typology
- typology [basic word order]
- typology [case-marking systems]
- typology [comparative]
- typology [markedness-based]
- typology [morpho-syntactic]
MORPHOLOGICAL ITEMS
- *-m [accusative case] [Indo-European]
- *-m [accusative case] [Indo-European] [interpretations of]
- *-N [absolutive marker] [Indo-European]
- *-r [ergative marker] [Indo-European]
- -r/n stem [Indo-European]
- *-s [nominative case] [Indo-European]
- *-s [nominative case] [Indo-European] [interpretations of]
MORPHOLOGY
- inflection [animate nouns and pronouns]
- inflection [case] [ergative-absolutive]
- inflection [ergative vs. absolutive]
- inflection [nominal] [Indo-European]
- inflection [nominative-ergative]
- inflection [verbal] [Indo-European]
- marker [ergative]
- marker [non-zero] [nominative case] [Indo-European]
- marker [zero] [nominative case]
- suffix [case]
PARTS OF SPEECH
- demonstrative
- noun [athematic]
- noun [case patterning]
- noun [ergative inflection] [vs. accusative inflection for pronouns]
- noun [feminine]
- noun [inanimate] [absence in ergative case]
- noun [masculine]
- noun [neuter]
- noun [neuter] [ergative marking] [Indo-European]
- noun [neuter] [inflectional patterns] [Indo-European]
- noun [neuter] [marking of] [Indo-European]
- pronoun
- pronoun [ergative]
- pronoun [nominative-accusative marking] [vs. ergative marking of nouns]
- pronoun [oblique]
- pronoun [personal] [stem suppletion]
- verb [intransitive]
- verb [periphrastic construction]
- verb [transitive]
- verb [transitive] [nominalized]
SEMANTICS
SYNTAX
- accusativity
- accusativity [animate nouns]
- agent-patient relations
- argument
- ergativity
- ergativity [Indo-European]
- function [A]
- function [O]
- function [S]
- Silverstein's NP hierarchy
- subject [intransitive verb]
- syntax [clausal]
- syntax [Proto-Indo-European]
- word order
- word order [SOV]
- word order [SVO]
- word order [VSO]