Re: Ergativity

Michael Poxon palsalge
>Yes, this is the way it works in Omeina too, and 'Soup cooks' would be
>simply surreal, as it would imply that the soup was cooking something!
In Sturnan, naturally, if you say "Momas palkem" (meat cook-1sing.pres),
you're saying "I'm cooking meat". It wouldn't be grammatically incorrect
to say "Momas palkag" for "[someone] cooks the meat", but that's falling
out of fashion lately. People are ditching simplicity just to be
understood better--can you believe it? So now "Momas o palkag" is being
said. It includes the passive marker which, I think, will affect initial
vowels.

To hijack the thread, how would that passive marker /o/ affect consonants?
Labialization? That could lead to /k/ > /p/ as part of the mutation. How
would other sounds be affected? Might it also change /p/ in the same
mutation?

~Wright