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July 01, 2026 dataset Open access Aachen paper

ERGON: A Grambank-Inspired Database for the Quantitative Typological Study of Ergativity

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21107436 Full text (OA) OpenAlex

Abstract

ERGON is a cross-linguistic typological database documenting patterns of ergative alignment of flagging across 177 ergative languages from 40 language families. Inspired by Grambank's feature GB409 (Is there any ergative alignment of flagging?), ERGON expands this single binary variable into 24 sub-features (GB409_1–GB409_24) that capture the full structural complexity of ergative flagging. The database is formatted as a CLDF StructureDataset.

Authors 10

  1. Roberto Zariquiey

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

    Affiliation as printed

    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP); Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

  2. Jaime Montoya

    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

    Affiliation as printed

    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

  3. Luisa Gómez

    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

    Affiliation as printed

    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

  4. Claudia Alvarado

    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

    Affiliation as printed

    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

  5. Santiago Chu Príncipe

    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

    Affiliation as printed

    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

  6. Leslie Lanasca

    National University of San Marcos · Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

    Affiliation as printed

    Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

  7. Anaís Almendra

    University of Chile

    Affiliation as printed

    Universidad de Chile

  8. Mariana Poblete Aachen

    Leiden University · Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

    Affiliation as printed

    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP); Leiden University

  9. Simon Greenhill

    University of Auckland · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Affiliation as printed

    University of Auckland; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

  10. Russell D. Gray

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Affiliation as printed

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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