Jean Aitchison Part 10

Greek, Albanian, Romanian and Bulgarian … (p. 140)

	show unexpected syntactic similarities although they belong to different branches of a language family
	show unexpected syntactic similarities although they do not belong to the same language family
	show unexpected syntactic dissimilarities although they belong to the same language family
	show unexpected syntactic dissimilarities although they belong to the same linguistic area

´Alfred ate a goose is´ … (p. 150)

	an ergative structure
	fairly unlikely to occur in real speech
	the result of foreign influence
	an example of conversion