Re: non-accusative, non-ergative, non-active ...
| From: | Joe Hill <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 8, 2002, 19:36 |
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From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
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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