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Jörg Knappen<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://glammr.us/@overholt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>overholt</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>researchbuzz</span></a></span> </p><p>Searching for early uses of the term "ergative" I came across a Google book published in the early 19th century with the alledged phrase <br>"ergativ elektrisch werdende".<br>Here, two-column layout and hyphenation did the trick.</p><p><a href="https://www.google.de/books/edition/Deutsche_Zeitschriften_des_18_und_19_Jah/RNtScV-rRTUC?hl=de&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=Ergativ&amp;pg=PA405&amp;printsec=frontcover" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">google.de/books/edition/Deutsc</span><span class="invisible">he_Zeitschriften_des_18_und_19_Jah/RNtScV-rRTUC?hl=de&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=Ergativ&amp;pg=PA405&amp;printsec=frontcover</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nfdi.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://nfdi.social/tags/ergative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ergative</span></a> <a href="https://nfdi.social/tags/OCR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OCR</span></a> <a href="https://nfdi.social/tags/epicFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epicFail</span></a></p>
Glyn Moody<p>‘If I don’t do it, who will?’: Greenlandic MP defends actions in Danish parliament - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/31/if-i-dont-do-it-who-will-greenlandic-mp-defends-actions-in-danish-parliament" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2024/oct</span><span class="invisible">/31/if-i-dont-do-it-who-will-greenlandic-mp-defends-actions-in-danish-parliament</span></a> "Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam, who was ordered to leave podium after refusing to translate speech, attacks ‘racist’ mindset" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greenlandic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenlandic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ergative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ergative</span></a></p>
silmeth 🇺🇦<p>A great article by Mícheál Hoyne showing that <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MiddleIrish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleIrish</span></a> was developing an absolutive-ergative alignment in its personal pronouns. This survived to an extent in Classical Gaelic, but (mostly) disappeared later.</p><p>The use of “object” pronouns with the copula in Modern <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Irish</span></a> are a remnant thereof too.<br><a href="https://dair.dias.ie/id/eprint/1104/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dair.dias.ie/id/eprint/1104/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syntax</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OldIrish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OldIrish</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ergative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ergative</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/splitergativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>splitergativity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/G%C3%A1oidhealg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gáoidhealg</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gaoidhealg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaoidhealg</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Sengo%C3%ADdelc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sengoídelc</span></a></p>