Comparative linguistic analysis reveals an ergative-to-genitive marker shift in Nyagrong Minyag, indicating grammatical evolution across Horpic languages.
While most of the Horpic languages have a genitive marker with a j - initial, the genitive marker in Nyagrong Minyag seems to correspond to the ergative marker in the other Horpic languages, which suggests the change from ergative to genitive in Nyagrong Minyag. This article analyzes the semantic shift of this genitive marker in Nyagrong Minyag from a diachronic point of view, along with synchronic analyses and typological evidence.
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Joanna Bialek (2026) studied this question.
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