Universal 319:

Universal 319:

Original

If in a language there is a syntactic form of the absolutive, it also has a syntactic form of the ergative.

Standardized

IF there is the syntactic form of an absolutive, THEN there will also be the syntactic form of an ergative.

Keywords

case, absolutive, ergative

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

statistical

Basis

languages surveyed in Kozinsky 1981

Source

Kozinsky 1981

Counterexamples

Waffa (Trans-New Guinea, Papuan), Yukaghir (isolate) (Kozinsky 1981)