Editing Ergative–absolutive alignment (section)

=== Languages with limited ergativity ===
*In [[Hindi]] ([[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]), ergative alignment occurs only when the verb is in the [[perfective aspect]] for [[transitive verb]]s (also for intransitive verbs but only when they are [[Volitional verbs|volitional]]). 
*In [[Pashto language|Pashto]], ergative alignment occurs only in the past tense. 
*In [[Georgian language|Georgian]], ergativity only occurs in the [[perfective]]. 
*The [[Philippine languages]] (e.g., [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]]) are sometimes considered ergative (Schachter 1976, 1977; Kroeger 1993); however, they have also been considered to have their own unique morphosyntactic alignment. See [[symmetrical voice]].
*In the [[Neo-Aramaic languages]], which are generally classified into 4 groups, only [[Northeastern Neo-Aramaic|Northeastern (NENA)]] and [[Central Neo-Aramaic|Ṭuroyo]] groups exhibit [[split ergativity]], which is formed in the [[perfective]] aspect only, whereas the [[imperfective]] aspect is nominative-accusative. Some dialects would only mark [[unaccusative]] subjects as ergative. Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, in particular, has an ergative type of construction of the [[perfective past]] verbal base, where foregone actions are verbalized by a passive construction with the [[patient (grammar)|patient]] being conferred as the [[grammatical subject]] rather than by an active construction, e.g. ''baxta qtile'' ("the woman was killed by him"). The ergative type of inflection with an agentive phrase has been extended by analogy to intransitive verbs, e.g. ''qim-le'' ("he has risen").<ref>A. Mengozzi, Neo-Aramaic and the So-called Decay of Ergativity in Kurdish, in: Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of Hamito-Semitic (Afroasiatic) Linguistics (Florence, 18–20 April 2005), Dipartamento di Linguistica Università di Firenze 2005, pp. 239–256.</ref> [[Aramaic]] has historically been a nominative-accusative language.<ref>Khan, Geoffrey. 1999. A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic: The Dialect of the Jews of Arbel. Leiden: Brill.</ref>