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Re: THEORY: "Quirky" Case -- "Quirky" Subjects and "Quirky" Objects

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Friday, July 29, 2005, 23:09
David J. Peterson wrote at 2005-07-29 15:23:49 (-0700)
 >
 > Anyway, one paper I recommend reading is one I referred to in
 > my ergativity reference, but which, heretofore, was apparently
 > improperly linked to, and, even more embarrassingly, was misattributed
 > (don't know *where* I got "Stepher" S. Dryer).  It's a small, readable
 > paper on clause types that deals with ergativity and  ditransitivity
 > by Matthew Dryer.  It can be downloaded from my site here (because
 > I can't find it on the web anymore):
 >
 > http://dedalvs.free.fr/misc/clausetypes.pdf
 >
 > Plus, if anyone can find a place to download it on the web, let me know.
 >
Well, Dryer seems to have taken it down, but the Internet Archive has
it:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030627222332/linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/clausetypes.pdf