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Re: THEORY: Mixed erg/acc

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Friday, March 10, 2000, 22:59
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Matt Pearson wrote:

> > 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