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• Ergative pattern
  The following examples from the paleosiberian language Chukchee are taken from Spencer (1991:24):
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• Nominative case (citation form)
  ...ch a form '''absolutive''', especially when discussing a non-Indo-European language. But I do not see sufficient reasons for this."'' (Mel'čuk 1988:208)
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• Core argument
  ...ra A.]] 1997. "Discourse motivations for the core-oblique distinction as a language universal." In Kamio, Akio (ed.) ''Directions in functional linguistics.''
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• Speech-act participant
  Certain subsystems of a language’s grammar are sensitive to speech-act participants. (They do not distingu *Andrews, Avery. 1985. The major functions of the noun phrase. In ''Language Typology and syntactic description,'' vol. 1. ''Clause structure,'' ed. by
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• Agent
  ...cial case, the [[ergative]]. Irrespective of the [[alignment]] system of a language, the Agent role is plays a crucial role in various syntactic constructions,
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• Ergativität
  '''Dixon(1979)''': "If a language is morphologically ergative, it can be syntactically ergative OR accusative => Einführung des Begriffs ''mixed-pivot language'' für z.B. Tagalog, Inuit, Maya-Sprachen, Chukchi, Toba Batak, Tsimshian-S
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• Ergativ
  *Csoma de Kőrös, Alexander 1834: A Grammar of the Tibetan Language. Calcutta, Lon­don. *Dirr, Adolf 1912: Rutulskij jazyk. [= The Rutul language.] in: Sbornik Materialov dlya Opi­sa­niya y Plemen Kavkaza (Tbilisi) 42/3
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• Unaccusative verb
  ...y. 1988. Topic...Comment: Citation etiquette beyond thunderdome. ''Natural Language and Linguistic Theory'' 6.4: 579-588.
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• Tsez
  |Language =Tsez ...age|Georgian]]) is a [[Northeast_Caucasian_languages|Northeast Caucasian]] language with about 7000 speakers spoken by the Tsez, a muslimic people in the moun
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• Tschetschenisch
  *Payne,Th.E. (2006) '''Exploring language structure: a student’s guide’'' 258-264 Cambridge University Press [[Category:Single language]]
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• Maori
  | ||DET||book ||language||Maori | ||colspan=4|'A Maori language book'
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• Intransitivita' scissa
  Cinque G 1990: “Ergative Adjectives and the Lexicalist Hypothesis”, ''Natural Language and Linguistic Theory'', '''8'''. Dowty D 1991: “Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection”, ''Language'', '''67'''.
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