Ergativity

In many cases, the ergativity may be syntactic in nature and solved with something like movement, which would like the universal intact. ❋ GamesWithWords (2010)

Yes, like pretty much every other proposed universal, there are some potential counter-examples to universal linking rules, such as ergativity. ❋ GamesWithWords (2010)

But there are also a few languages claimed to have "deep ergativity," which can't be solved by movement. ❋ GamesWithWords (2010)

Strange, I've posted exactly about this pre-Etruscan *i- deictic and its relationship to animacy, ergativity, and PIE *i- before online somewhere Yahoogroups like Cybalist perhaps? ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the global scheme of things, ergativity isn't exotic or rare; it's natural and common! ❋ Unknown (2008)

It sometimes strikes me that these "ergative Pre-IE proponents" are simply intoxicated by the mere exoticness (or should we say apparent exoticness) of ergativity, seduced by a fashion that will some day pass (hopefully). ❋ Unknown (2008)

What I personally think happened was that the pronominal case system transmogrified due to ergativity. ❋ Unknown (2008)