#ergative — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ergative, aggregated by home.social.
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‘If I don’t do it, who will?’: Greenlandic MP defends actions in Danish parliament - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/31/if-i-dont-do-it-who-will-greenlandic-mp-defends-actions-in-danish-parliament "Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam, who was ordered to leave podium after refusing to translate speech, attacks ‘racist’ mindset" #language #greenlandic #ergative
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A great article by Mícheál Hoyne showing that #MiddleIrish was developing an absolutive-ergative alignment in its personal pronouns. This survived to an extent in Classical Gaelic, but (mostly) disappeared later.
The use of “object” pronouns with the copula in Modern #Irish are a remnant thereof too.
https://dair.dias.ie/id/eprint/1104/#syntax #OldIrish #linguistics #ergative #splitergativity #Gáoidhealg #Gaoidhealg #Sengoídelc