{"id":259,"date":"2020-05-01T18:49:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:49:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/universals-archive\/259\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal 259: primary topicalization &#8658; accusative alignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Universal 259: primary topicalization &#8658; accusative alignment<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dt>Original<\/dt>\n<dd>In ergative and active languages only secondary topicalization, by means of changing the word order in the sentence, is possible. Primary topicalization or subjectivization \u2013 choosing either agent or patient as subject \u2013 is not possible in these languages. This is due to the fact that in ergative languages transitive verbs lack the opposition of an active and passive voice and in active languages the version opposition is of a non-voice character.<\/dd>\n<dt>Standardized<\/dt>\n<dd>IF alignment is ergative or active, THEN primary and secondary topicalization cannot be by means of diathesis\/voice alternations, but only by means of word order changes.<\/dd>\n<dt>Keywords<\/dt>\n<dd>topicalization, diathesis, verbal voice, passive, version, alignment, active, ergative <\/dd>\n<dt>Domain<\/dt>\n<dd>inflection, syntax<\/dd>\n<dt>Type<\/dt>\n<dd>implication<\/dd>\n<dt>Status<\/dt>\n<dd>achronic<\/dd>\n<dt>Quality<\/dt>\n<dd>absolute<\/dd>\n<dt>Basis<\/dt>\n<dd>unspecified<\/dd>\n<dt>Source<\/dt>\n<dd><a class=\"reference\" href=\"..\/references#Klimov_1973\">Klimov 1973<\/a>: 95, <a class=\"reference\" href=\"..\/references#Klimov_1977\">Klimov 1977<\/a>: 143, referring to <a class=\"reference\" href=\"..\/references#Fillmore_1968\">Fillmore 1968<\/a>: 57-59 <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dl>\n<dt>Counterexamples<\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal 259: primary topicalization &#8658; accusative alignment Original In ergative and active languages only secondary topicalization, by means of changing the word order in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/universals-archive\/259\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Universal 259: primary topicalization &#8658; accusative alignment<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-universals-archive","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typo.uni-konstanz.de\/rara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}