Re: Ergative to Nominative Transition
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 28, 2000, 2:33 |
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"Anthony M. Miles" wrote:
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> Does the following transition seem likely?
Only one problem - how'd the nouns acquire the nominative and accusative
endings?
Another likely change would simply be the ergative being extended in use
to the subject of intransitive verbs, thus becoming a nominative
function.
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