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Re: Active again.

From:Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Monday, March 31, 2003, 10:15
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