Re: Active again.

Danny Wier wrote:

> Thanks Daniel for that article. I noticed listed along with nominative,
> ergative and active, another type of case marking: tripartite, where
> subjects, actors and patients are three distinct cases. What natlangs do
> that?
I have no idea, actually, but I'm welcoming all answers
to this question. I'm sure there are some listed in
Describing Morposyntax or other similar books on morphology/morphosyntax, but I don't
have them here
at work. (I should bring them, though. :)

Hm. A search through the archives gives the following
languages as at least partially tripartite:

Yimas (a Papuan language)
Yazgulyam (an Iranian language)

plus the somewhat vague "a group of Australian Aboriginal languages
spoken in south-east Queensland which make three-way
distinctions for A, S, and P across all NPs."

More examples are, as I said, welcome.

Daniel Andreasson