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Peer reviewedGarrett, Andrew – Language, 1990
Discusses ergative case marking system in Anatolian branch of Indo-European in which neuters inflect ergatively and common-gender nouns inflect accusatively. Development from instrumental to ergative that occurred in prehistory of Gorokan languages of Papua New Guinea is also discussed. It is suggested that this process is a general mechanism for…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Diachronic Linguistics, Indo European Languages, Morphology (Languages)
