absolutive

But there is another common language type in the world called ergative-absolutive.

Behind Bars | ATTACKERMAN 2008

Healthy fact-based skepticism is not equal to toxic absolutive skepticism based on petty feeling.

Blogger lynchmobs - Get out the pitchforks! 2009

Healthy fact-based skepticism is not equal to toxic absolutive skepticism based on petty feeling.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

Of course, that all begs the question as to whether the athematic nom. sg. ending *-s and athematic pronominal nom./acc. (better "abs." for absolutive) sg. ending *-d are indeed from postclitic demonstratives/articles, as opposed to coming from some other source(s).

Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing 2008

So I figure the best way to explain that is to propose a suppletive absolutive-ergative system for Nostratic as follows note that my intention is to conjecture for the sake of discussion:

A ramble about the Nostratic pronominal system, part 2 2007

Simply put, Dravidian could have opted to generalize the absolutive pronouns for both agents and patients of actions and thus PDr *yān

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

Also when I read Allan Bomhard or other Nostraticists, I try consciously to not get stuck into absolutive thinking and pre-judge people as either 100% kooky or 100% infallible.

Allan Bomhard's "Toward Proto-Nostratic" 2007

Simply put, Dravidian could have opted to generalize the absolutive pronouns for both agents and patients of actions and thus PDr *yān

A ramble about the Nostratic pronominal system, part 2 2007

Also when I read Allan Bomhard or other Nostraticists, I try consciously to not get stuck into absolutive thinking and pre-judge people as either 100% kooky or 100% infallible.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

It appears that an extra element *-e has been added to this absolutive set at an early stage of PIE, perhaps to use it for transitive verbs by marking it with a dummy object nb.

Archive 2007-12-01 2007