Re: THEORY: Ergativity and polypersonalism

Hi,

Tim May wrote:

> The following languages are ergative in terms of case-marking and/or
> verbal agreement at least some of the time, and so far as I can tell
> from looking at various glossed examples, do not have polypersonal
> verbs.
Thank you for the information. Therefore, I think both possibilities are
quite natural and plausible, and I may choose any variant for the project
just based on whether I like it or not.

> Hindi (and other Indo-Iranian)
> Dyirbal
I heard this to be an Australian lang. Is it the same as Jiwarli? My dic
gives no info about it.

> Tsimshianic languages e.g. Nisgha [1]
Again, no info at all in my "Linguistic Encyclopaedical Dictionary", Moscow,
1990 (further referred to as LED-90).

-- Yitzik

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