Rara #38
Legacy number: 38
| Number | 38 |
| Phenomenon | absolutive (marking intransitive subject and transitive direct object) as the morphologically marked case vis-à-vis (zero-marked) ergative (marking transitive subject), (a) on NPs which are not focused or topicalized and then are not case-marked at all, (b) on NPs which are focused |
| Found in | (a) Nias (Sundic, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian) (b) Yukaghir (isolate or Uralic); dialects of Komi (Permic, Finno-Ugric, Uralic) Old Wardaman (Australian) (?); Kabardian (Northwest Caucasian) (?) |
| Domain | morphology: inflection — markedness: case |
| Type | rarissimum |
| Keywords | absolutive, ergative, focus |
| Source | Donohue, Mark & Lea Brown (1999). Ergativity: Some additions from Indonesia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 19: 57-76. Irina Nikolaeva (p.c.) for Yukaghir and Komi |
| Violates | <a class="innerLink" href="../../archive/nav/browse.php?entry_id=6"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> |
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