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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">Dear Raheleh,</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">One mechanism might be language contact. The Gurindji ergative marker became a nominative marker as a result of
contact with Kriol in the formation of </span>Gurindji Kriol <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">which is a mixed language. This change had an intermediate stage whereby Gurindji Kriol was originally an optional
ergative language and then became a (optional) marked nominative language (as the ergative marker extended to subjects of transitive clauses).</span></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Meakins, Felicity. 2009. The case of the shifty ergative marker: A pragmatic shift in the ergative marker in one Australian mixed language. In Jóhanna Barddal & Shobhana Chelliah (eds.),
<i>The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case.</i> Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 59-91.</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">---. to appear. From absolutely optional to only nominally ergative: The life cycle of the Gurindji Kriol ergative suffix. In Nino Amiridze, Peter Arkadiev & Francesco Gardani (eds.),
<i>Borrowed Morphology</i>. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Meakins, Felicity & Carmel O'Shannessy. 2010. Ordering arguments about: Word order and discourse motivations in the development and use of the ergative marker in two Australian mixed languages.
<i>Lingua </i>120.7: 1693–713.</font></p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Geoffrey Haig <<a href="mailto:geoffrey.haig@UNI-BAMBERG.DE">geoffrey.haig@UNI-BAMBERG.DE</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Geoffrey Haig <<a href="mailto:geoffrey.haig@UNI-BAMBERG.DE">geoffrey.haig@UNI-BAMBERG.DE</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, 9 January 2014 5:40 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>" <<a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Fwd: AW: ergative to accusative alignment<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Dear Raheleh,<br>
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ergative to accusative is attested, and there is a vast literature related to it; a couple of pointers that might help:<br>
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Claims for a shift from ergative to accusative alignment for a number of languages of Australia are discussed in e.g. Alan Dench's paper "Insubordination: the accusative revolution in Australian languages" (available on academia.edu)<br>
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For West Iranian languages, relevant material is summed up in: Haig, G. 2008. Alignment change in Iranian languages. A Construction Grammar approach. Berlin: Mouton.<br>
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For alignment changes in various directions in Indo-Aryan, see, among many others, Saartje Verbeke's recent monograph.<br>
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For languages of Amazonia see: Gildea / Queixalós (eds.) 2010. Ergativity in Amazonia. Amsterdam: Benjamins.<br>
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Geoff<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> Discussion List for ALT [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>]
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this
issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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