Re: THEORY: two questions
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 30, 2000, 22:18 |
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daniel andreasson wrote:
> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
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> > I may be wrong though. But IIRC, some IE languages have now
> > mixed ergative if not completely ergative systems,
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> Which languages would that be?
There are a couple Indo-Aryan languages, particularly Hindi, which
have some aspects of ergativity. There's a book on ergativity in
German syntax to be gotten from Amazon.com:
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9067654264/qid%3D954454695/002-8330452-3368220>
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