Among the lexical frequentalia of ergativity one can mention: Classes of possessive and affective verbs (verba habendi and verba sentiendi), forming special sentence constructions [and affective verbs can sometimes be implied — ??? ]; at the level of noun morphology the presence of a special affective case; a distribution of nouns into lexical classes; groups of verbs that are not lexicalized according to the feature ‘transitivity vs. intransitivity’, i.e. so-called labile or diffuse verbs; an opposition of inclusive and exclusive forms in the 1st person plural.
Standardized
IF alignment is predominantly ergative, THEN there tend to be: possessive and affective verbs (verba habendi and verba sentiendi) in syntactic constructions distinct from that of verbs of action; a special affective case; nouns divided into lexical classes; “labile” (or “diffuse”) verbs rather than a classification of verbs as transitive and intransitive; an opposition of inclusive and exclusive in the 1st person plural.
1. See comments to #264.2. Klimov being a “stadialist”, these frequentalia are to be seen as characterizing developmental stages, with the ergative stage developing from the active stage and developing into the accusative stage.
1. See comments to #264.2. Klimov being a “stadialist”, these frequentalia are to be seen as characterizing developmental stages, with the ergative stage developing from the active stage and developing into the accusative stage.