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
Trask, Robert L. 1979. On the origins of ergativity. Ergativity: Towards a Theory of Grammatical Relations. Frans Planck, ed.London: Academic Press. 385-404.
CASE
- case
- case [absolutive]
- case [absolutive] [unmarked]
- case [accusative]
- case [dative]
- case [ergative]
- case [ergative] [overtly marked]
- case [genitive]
- case grammar
- case [instrumental]
- case [locative]
- case marking [ergative languages]
- case [nominative]
- case [oblique]
- case system
CONTENT WORDS
- extralinguistic factors
- grammatical system
- politeness [passive use]
- verb form [non-past]
- verb form [passive] [derived]
- verb form [past]
- verb form [suffixed]
- verb form [unmarked]
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY
- aorist
- aspect
- aspect [imperfective]
- aspect [stative]
- auxiliary
- gender
- perfect
- perfect [old intransitive value]
- perfect [Slavic]
- perfect [with past participle]
- preterit
- tense
- voice
- voice [active]
- voice [circumstantial] [Malagasy]
- voice [medio-passive]
- voice [passive]
- voice [passive] [absence of]
- voice [passive] [extension of]
- voice [passive] [obligatory]
LANGUAGE CHANGE
LANGUAGE RECONSTRUCTION
- ergative languages [origin in accusative languages]
- ergative languages [origin in passive]
- ergative [passive origin]
- ergativity [origins of]
- Indo-European
- Indo-European [early] [conjugational system of]
- Indo-European [perfect] [origin in verbal adjective]
- Indo-European [perfect] [verbal form denoting state]
- NP split [origin of]
- participle [past] [origin in verbal adjectives]
LANGUAGE TYPE
- accusative system
- active system
- case-marking languages
- ergative [as passive]
- ergative [confined to past tense]
- ergative [confined to perfective aspect]
- ergative [formal resemblance to possessive]
- ergative languages
- ergative languages [absence of passive voice]
- ergative languages [Indo-European]
- ergative languages [type A]
- ergative languages [type B]
- ergative languages [type B] [two subtypes]
- ergative languages [types of]
- ergative pattern [superficial]
- ergative system
- ergative system [rise of]
- gender languages
- NP split
- split-ergative languages
- tense-aspect split
- tense-aspect split [absence of]
LANGUAGES
- Algonquian languages
- American Indian languages
- Australian languages
- Basque
- Burushaski
- Caucasian languages
- Dakota
- Dyirbal
- Eskimo-Aleut
- Georgian
- Germanic
- Hurrian
- Indo-Aryan
- Indo-European languages [classical] [origin of perfect]
- Kurdish
- Mayan languages
- Old Armenian
- Old Persian
- Old Persian [ergative] [passive origin of]
- Polynesian languages
- Prakrit
- Romance languages
- Sanskrit [Classical]
- Sumerian
- Tibetan
- Tibeto-Burman languages
LEXICON
LINGUISTIC CONSTRUCTIONS
- active construction
- dative-subject construction
- ergative construction
- ergative construction [characteristics of]
- locative-subject construction
- possessive construction
- possessive construction [correlation in form with transitive verbs]
- transitive-active construction
LINGUISTIC ITEMS
MORPHOLOGICAL ITEMS
MORPHOLOGY
- agreement
- agreement [verbal]
- agreement [verbal] [with direct object]
- agreement [verbal] [with intransitive subject]
- agreement [verbal] [with transitive subject]
- derivation
- ergativity [morphological]
- morphological distinction [definite and indefinite NPs] [absence of]
- morphology
- morphology [archaic]
- morphology [ergative]
- morphology [subject-like]
- morphology [verbal] [ergative]
- NP [case marking] [overt]
- prefix
- prefix [verbal]
- suffix [subject]
PARTS OF SPEECH
- adjective
- adjective [deverbal] [stative]
- noun [incorporation into verb]
- participle
- participle [past]
- preposition
- pronoun [first person]
- pronoun [second person]
- pronoun [third person]
- verb [classes of]
- verb [intransitive]
- verb [intransitive] [derived]
- verb [intransitive] [stative]
- verb [intransitive] [stative-active inflection]
- verb [tense system]
- verb [transitive]
- verb [transitive] [agent]
- verb [transitive] [subject]
SEMANTICS
- action [absence of]
- action [consequence of]
- action [performer of]
- action [totality of]
- agent [absence of]
- agent/non-agent distinction
- agent [reinterpretation as subject]
- agentive
- patient
- patient [unmarked]
- possessor
- state [result of completed action]
SYNTAX
- accusativity [markedness]
- core syntactic relations
- deep structure
- definiteness
- ergativity [grammatical correlations]
- ergativity [proportion of world's languages]
- ergativity [split]
- ergativity [syntactic]
- ergativity [syntactic] [absence of]
- ergativity [types of]
- ergativity [unified phenomenon]
- function
- NP [definite]
- NP [indefinite]
- NP [patient]
- NP [types] [hierarchy of]
- object
- object [direct]
- object [direct] [animate]
- object [direct] [third person]
- object [direct][unmarked]
- object [transitive]
- passivization
- semitransitive
- Silverstein's NP hierarchy
- Silverstein's NP hierarchy [origin of]
- stative-passive
- subject [absolute]
- subject [ergative]
- subject [intransitive verb]
- subject-object distinction
- subject [properties of]
- subject [surface]
- subject [transitive verb]
- syntax
- syntax [analogical leveling of]
- syntax [deep-ergative]
- syntax [diachronic]
- syntax [reconstruction]
- voice opposition
- word order
- word order [OSV]
- word order [rigid]
- word order [SOV]
- word order [SVO]
- word order [VSO]