<div dir="ltr">Ngayarta languages are Accusative unlike most other Australian languages which are Ergative, see <div><br></div><div>Dench, A.C. (1982)<br>'The development of an accusative case marking pattern in the Ngayarda languages of Western Australia', pp.43-60 in Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol.2, no.1.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">or</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px">Dench, Alan (1991). "Panyjima". In R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake. </span><i style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px">The Handbook of Australian Languages, Volume 4</i><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px">. Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia. pp. 125–244.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px">Nick</span></font></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px"><br>
</span></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px"><br></span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 January 2014 00:55, Martin Kümmel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mjkuemmel@web.de" target="_blank">mjkuemmel@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Dear colleague,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Cf., e.g. </span><a href="http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ergative-construction" target="_blank"><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:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Best,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Martin<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<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 [mailto:<a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" target="_blank">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Raheleh Izadi Far<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014 13:25<br><b>An:</b> <a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" target="_blank">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a><br><b>Betreff:</b> ergative to accusative alignment<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Dear all,<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">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? <u></u><u></u></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Thank you very much in advance<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">kind regards,<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Raheleh Izadifar<u></u><u></u></p>
</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>