Re: Active, Was: Help with grammar terms

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> As ever, the question of primacy can be debated endlessly: People who
> want the stadial theory to be true (that languages develop from active
> to ergative to accusative type) will have to argue that (late) Hittite
> shows the original state; other people will come to other conclusions,
> depending on how they fit their theories.
OOH OOH!  COOL!  I didn't know about the "Stadial Theory".  Can you
tell me any more about it?

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