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By Kristina Sands
Due to the fact Dixon's 1980 reconstruction of the ergative case suffix in Australian languages little or no huge scale comparability of the ergative has been performed. besides the fact that, because the results of a learn venture on Comparative Australian reports (headed through R.M.W. Dixon and affiliated with the Australian nationwide collage) the writer has performed distinctive comparative paintings at the ergative case suffix and proposes a few adjustments to the at present permitted reconstruction. within the first a part of this research the writer examines the ergative within the Pama-Nyungan languages (those checked out through Dixon in 1980) and proposes that the elemental underlying allomorph of the ergative is -Dhu instead of -lu, whereas the formerly permitted shape -lu is a morphologically conditioned allomorph following nominals which aren't universal nouns. within the moment a part of the paper Kristina Sands seems to be on the non-Pama-Nyungan languages, that have formerly been held not to include ergative suffixes cognate with the Pama-Nyungan types, and unearths reflexes of an analogous shape -Dhu. it truly is therefore proven that cognate varieties of the ergative are present in either Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan (*-Dhu), therefore aiding to set up what kind of language proto-Australian was once, and likewise supplying vital facts that the Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan languages are similar. Ed. via RMW Dixon, examine Centre for Linguistic Typology, l. a. Trobe collage.
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