Mark wrote
original article:
http://www.egroups.com/group/cybalist/?start=1465
> Beekes give some compelling arguments that PIE may have descended
from an older ergative language, eg, the old genitive became used as
the new nominative (the agent in a passive construction is often a
genetive, eg, in German ("von") & Dutch dialects ("van").
For a discussion on the ergative nature of PIE see
http://www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/contents.htm
Glen, any chance that Nostratic was also ergative?
(Sorry I don't have dictionaries, I am not a professional linguist)
Regards
John