On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:31:33PM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> I wrote a lengthy response to this, but it appears to've died in a Free
> freeze.
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> I'll just add that I think this is looking to be a really
> cool lang.
Thanks!
> I'll also point out that split-systems can be majorly messed up; the example
> I mentioned in my earlier post was Dyribal, which is, in pronouns,
> morphemically accusative but syntactically ergative; that's too say that
> despite the case marking being exactly parallel to the English in a sentence
> like "he hit her and ran away", the Dyirbal version means that the "she" ran
> away; the S ergatively mapping to the P in open defiance of that it has the
> wrong case marking for an intransitive subject.
Ow. That hurts my head.
-Mark