Show threadJörg KnappenFeb 16, 2025

@overholt @researchbuzz

Searching for early uses of the term "ergative" I came across a Google book published in the early 19th century with the alledged phrase
"ergativ elektrisch werdende".
Here, two-column layout and hyphenation did the trick.

https://www.google.de/books/edition/Deutsche_Zeitschriften_des_18_und_19_Jah/RNtScV-rRTUC?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=Ergativ&pg=PA405&printsec=frontcover

#linguistics #ergative #OCR #epicFail

Deutsche Zeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts

Google Books
Glyn MoodyOct 31, 2024
‘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
‘If I don’t 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

The Guardian
silmeth 🇺🇦Oct 23, 2023

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

Unaccusativity and the subject pronoun in Middle and Early Modern Irish - DIAS Access to Institutional Repository