 Schuchardt firmly sided with the outdated viewpoint of the Vasco-Iberian hypothesis, in stark contrast to his earlier open-mindedness.Similarly, in the discussion on ergativity, then-current, Schuchardt firmly defended the idea of the ergative construction as an obligatorily-passive clause (as opposed to a similarly questionable theory of the ergative construction being a nominalized clause).He thus specifically opposed Nikolaus Finck in Vienna with whom he had a scientific dispute in a succession of articles (e.g, N. Finck (1907), "Der angeblich passivische Charakter des transitiven Verbs", "Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung" 41