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Ergative languages

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12 July 2006 at 10:15am | IP Logged 
I read a lot of sources and stuff and tried to understand what an ergative language actually is, but all sources in the net seem to be very hard to understand, so actually I understand nothing. Does anyone know any website (English works, too, but German would be better) which has an easy introduction to what ergativ languages are?

Regards,
Ilhan

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13 July 2006 at 6:26am | IP Logged 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergative-absolutive_language

this may help


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13 July 2006 at 7:46am | IP Logged 
Thanks!

Regards,
Ilhan


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