Author： Fortescue Michael
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
E-ISSN： 1569-9978|21|2|369-409
ISSN： 0378-4177
Source： Studies in Language, Vol.21, Iss.2, 1997-01, pp. : 369-409
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Abstract
It has generally been assumed in the literature on ergativity that the phenomenon of ergative clause structure in Chukotkan languages represents a family-internal development reflecting the common source of such constructions in earlier passives. On closer inspection it appears that Chukotkan ergativity is of a typologically quite aberrant kind, however, whose most likely source is to be found in influence from neighbouring Eskimo. Prior to that, all Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages had already developed complex transitive verbal paradigms of a non-ergative type.
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