Semanically ergative languages in typological perspective

The Ergative System in Balochi from a Typological Perspective

For the Western Iranian languages the transition from the Old Iranian to the Middle-Iranian period is characterised by – among other things – the loss of word-final syllables. This loss had a far-reaching impact on the nominal and verbal systems since it caused the loss of categories which had been expressed by suffixes. The consequences include the emergence of the so-called ergative system. ...

the ergative system in balochi from a typological perspective

for the western iranian languages the transition from the old iranian to the middle-iranian period is characterised by – among other things – the loss of word-final syllables. this loss had a far-reaching impact on the nominal and verbal systems since it caused the loss of categories which had been expressed by suffixes. the consequences include the emergence of the so-called ergative system. ...

The Acquisition of Ergative Languages

Morphological Complexity: a typological perspective

Matti MiestaMo (Helsinki) POLAR INTERROGATIVES IN URALIC LANGUAGES A TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

The paper surveys the domain of polar interrogation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. An overview of the ways in which polar interrogation is marked in the world’s languages is presented and the encoding of the domain in Uralic languages is examined against this background. All the major types of polar interrogative marking are found in the family. Polar interrogatives...