<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-family: 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; "><div><div><div>Dear Raheleh,</div><div><br></div><div> The following paper may be useful.</div><div><br></div><div>Hohepa, Patrick. 1969. The accusative-to-ergative drift in Polynesian languages.</div><div>Journal of the Polynesian Society, 78: 297-329.</div><div><div>-- </div><div>Tasaku Tsunoda</div><div><br></div></div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:?l?r ?o?S?V?b?N; font-size:10pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Raheleh Izadi Far <<a href="mailto:raheleh.izadifar@GMAIL.COM">raheleh.izadifar@GMAIL.COM</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> Raheleh Izadi Far <<a href="mailto:raheleh.izadifar@GMAIL.COM">raheleh.izadifar@GMAIL.COM</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> 2014年1月8日水曜日 21:24<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> <<a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> ergative to accusative alignment<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Dear all,<br><br></div>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? <br><br></div>Thank you very much in advance<br><br></div>kind regards,<br></div>Raheleh Izadifar<br></div></span></body></html>