Re: Phenomena

At 19:20 02/03/00 -0000, you wrote:
>> I dont know a better term for this, but how do you all say things like
>> "it's raining" or "it's dripping" without an actual specified agent to
>do
>> that action?
>
>In Maltese: <ix-xita>, literally <the rain>.
>
>In Japanese, it is something like <rain is falling>.
>
"Ame ga furu" in Japanese. My conlangs work that way I think, I always had
problems with impersonal constructions... I wonder how I will handle that
in Itakian... Does anyone know how such constructions are handled in
ergative and/or trigger languages?

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