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Re: Nominative to ergative shift

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, March 21, 1999, 6:18
FFlores wrote:
> I think a better option would be having > VS for intransitive sentences (the original word order) > and SVO for transitive sentences
Are there any prefixes on the verbs that could be attached to the preceding noun? I still think that a better way would be to use an instrumental preposition that would evolve into an ergative case-marker. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor