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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Dear colleague,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Modern Persian has accusative alignment, while Middle Persian had a kind of split ergativity with ergative alignment in the past tense. Similar cases may be found in other Iranian and Indo-Iranian languages that have generalized accusative alignment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Cf., e.g. </span><a href="http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ergative-construction"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ergative-construction</span></a><span lang=EN-US>.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Raheleh Izadi Far<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014 13:25<br><b>An:</b> LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br><b>Betreff:</b> ergative to accusative alignment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p></div><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></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Thank you very much in advance<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Raheleh Izadifar<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>