ABSTRACT
This article is divided into two sections: Part I presents the paper I read as part of the 1988-89 series of seminars on Language Typology organised by the Linguistics Department at SOAS (London University). It restates the arguments I had adduced earlier in the 1980s in favour of the traditional view that Georgian is, in one part of its morphosyntax, correctly described as ergative. After the delivery of this paper, the proponent of the alternative view that the relevant part of Georgian’s morpho-syntax is not ergative but rather “active” in structure, Alice Harris, published two attempted rebuttals of my arguments. Part II of what follows contains my response to these two articles.
