Re: THEORY: Mixed erg/acc
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 10, 2000, 22:59 |
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Matt Pearson wrote:
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> This kind of split-ergativity is found in Hindi and other Indo-Aryan
> languages, and also (I think) in Georgian. (A linguistics professor
> of mine, Anoop Mahajan, has a neat story for explaining this pattern,
> but I won't go into that unless asked...)
>
I'd like to hear his explanation, too - I've always thought
the Indo-Aryan split ergative was caused by the participial
way of speaking that was already prevalent in Sanskrit - which
went with the instrumental. But I'm kind of vague about the
real inner workings...
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org