Re: Fifth morphosyntactic category?
| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 11:15 |
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Mark J. Reed:
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Can't remember what you call the ones that make no distinctions...
Agent, Patient, Intransitive...
A!=P!=I Tripartite
A=P!=I Monster Raving Loony
A!=P=I Ergative
A=I!=P Accusative
A=I=P ?
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English?
The dog slept.
The cat slept.
The dog chased the cat.
The cat chased the dog.
A=I=P
Now, if word order isn't an issue, then you have a clairvoyant
system--but, *man*, it'd *really* better be unpredictable word
order and animacy.
-David
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