As set forth in the previous installment (on non-configurational languages), our goal is

Mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voller Aale — German

to illustrate important concepts in linguistics via cartoons. (And, as mentioned last time, in so doing perhaps illustrate our own mastery of the material!)

For our next foray into the Cartoon Theory of Linguistics, I present the following visual explanation of ergativity:

Next time, we’ll look at morphological typology.

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2. Comrie, Bernard. (1978). Ergativity. In W. P. Lehmann (Ed.), Syntactic typology: Studies in the phenomenology of language (pp. 329-394).
3. Dixon, R. M. W. (Ed.) (1987). Studies in ergativity.
4. Dixon, R. M. W. (1994). Ergativity.
5. Foley, William, & Van Valin, Robert. (1984). Functional syntax and universal grammar.
6. Mallinson, Graham, & Blake, Barry J. (1981). Agent and patient marking. Language typology: Cross-linguistic studies in syntax (Chap. 2, pp. 39-120).

   Meu hovercraft está cheio de enguias — Portuguese

7. Plank, Frans. (Ed.). (1979). Ergativity: Towards a theory of grammatical relations.
8. Schachter, Paul. (1977). Reference-related and role-related properties of subjects. In P. Cole & J. Sadock (Eds.), Syntax and semantics: Grammatical relations (Vol. 8, pp. 279-306).
9. Silverstein, Michael. (1976). Hierarchy of Features and Ergativity. In R.M.W. Dixon (ed.) Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages (pp. 112-171).

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