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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dear Raheleh,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Georgian is thought to have originally been ergative-absolutive, but then to have developed a nominative-accusative (dative) aligned present-future series of
tenses through a process of anti-passivization, while maintaining the original ergative alignment in the aorist tense series with agentive verbs only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-variant:small-caps">Harris, Alice C.</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> (1982): From ergative to active in Georgian, in:
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Aronson, Howard I. & Darden, Bill J.</span> (eds.),
<i>Papers from the Second Conference on the Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR – Folia Slavica 5</i>, 191-205.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-variant:small-caps">Harris, Alice C. (1985)</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt">:
<i>Diachronic syntax: The Kartvelian case</i>. Orlando: Academic Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-variant:small-caps">Harris, Alice C.</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> (1991): Overview on the history of the Kartvelian languages, in:
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Harris, Alice C.</span> (ed.), <i>The indigenous languages of the Caucasus</i>, Vol. I,
<i>Kartvelian languages</i>: Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 7-83.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-variant:small-caps">Harris, Alice C. (2008):</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> On the explanation of typologically unusual structures, in:
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Good, Jeff</span> (ed.), <i>Linguistic universals and language change</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 54-76.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Steve Hewitt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Raheleh Izadi Far<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 08 January 2014 13:25<br>
<b>To:</b> LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br>
<b>Subject:</b> ergative to accusative alignment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Thank you very much in advance<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Raheleh Izadifar<o:p></o:p></p>
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