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Ilja,<br>
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In some varieties of colloquial Malay/Indonesian, the form <i>sama</i>
provides an example of what you're looking for. Its basic meaning
is "same" / "together" (it is probably a loan from an Indo-Aryan
language and hence cognate with English <i>same</i>.) But in some
varieties, eg. Riau Indonesian, its use generalizes to, among
others, datives (e.g. the goal of 'give'), and (optional) marker of
the A ("transitive subject") role, which fits the definition of an
ergative (though it's usually not referred to as such). You can
find more details on this in:<br>
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style="margin-left:27.35pt;text-indent:-27.35pt">Gil,
David (2004) "Riau Indonesian <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">sama</i>,
Explorations in Macrofunctionality", in M. Haspelmath ed., <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Coordinating Constructions</i>,
Typological
Studies in Language 58, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 371-424.</p>
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Best,<br>
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David<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/01/2015 03:19,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ilja.serzants@uni-konstanz.de">ilja.serzants@uni-konstanz.de</a> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:54BAC3D3.7010906@uni-konstanz.de" type="cite">Dear
colleagues,
<br>
<br>
I am very much interested in instances of an ergative case which
historically developed from a dative or a dative-like expression
that is (or was) elsewhere used to encode such role clusters as
recipients/experiencers/beneficiaries/external possessors.
<br>
<br>
I'd be grateful for any information on languages that have an
ergative-dative homonymy as well as for any case study on this
matter.
<br>
<br>
I am already aware of the ergative perfect in Aramaic/work by
Coghill, various cxns in Cariban lgs./work by Gildea, partial
homonymy in Basque, Indo-Aryan/work by Butt.
<br>
<br>
Many thanks in advance!
<br>
Ilja
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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