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Re: non-accusative, non-ergative, non-active ...

From:Joe Hill <joe@...>
Date:Friday, March 8, 2002, 19:36
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From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
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Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 6:41 PM
Subject: non-accusative, non-ergative, non-active ...


> If I had a language with no case affices, where word order in sentences
with
> a transitive verb is SOV and in ones with an intransitive SV, could that > language be meaningfully be classified as accusative, ergative, active or
as
> not any of those three? > > As you can probably guess, I'm planning to have a conlang work like this, > namely Altaii, and quite possibly also its sister Eithínin and their > ancestor Vaikin.
Hmm...sounds accusative. English is fairly similar to that... But almost all natlangs have cases at some time in their lives. Only exception I can think of offhend is chinese.

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William Annis <annis@...>