so much talk about global warming, about seas rising and deserts expanding; is there any hope for mankind?
Morphological typologyis a way of classifying the languages of the world that groups languages according to their common morphological structures.(cite: wikipedia)"
or perhaps
"An ergative-absolutive (or simply ergative) is one that treats the of transitive verbs distinctly from the subject of intransitive verbs and the object of transitive verbs.(cite: wikipedia)"