Re: THEORY: Ergativity and polypersonalism

>Persuasive. In any case, I know too little Georgian to start fighting. I
>merely remember that most our professors in the Univeristy mentioned
>Georgian as a good example of ergative lang. Now I see it was a
>misunderstanding, or just an obsolete view. Ok. Isn't Basque typically
>ergative? I took a half year course of it 14 years ago :) - will it help?
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Yep. :) Basque is very strongly morphologically ergative language. :)
About the closest you get to accusative behavoir is a progressive
construction using "ari", where both arguments are marked as absolutive
and the verb only agrees with the agent, but other than that peripheral
example, pretty much everything is ergative.