Re: Active again.

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From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>

> I don't see why you should consider activity a subset of ergativity? In
active
> languages you get sentences "he-A fell", which are very non-ergative.
I know that, Andreas.  As for my calling it a "subset," I was corrected on
this by subsequent messages by Peter Clark.  It merely seems to me that the
languages that have active tendencies that I've looked at have also had more
ergative tendencies than accusative--including Georgian, and Pearson's own
Tokana.  It's as if activity seems to combine with ergativity more often
than it combines with accusativity-- I may be wrong.  I realize that they
are not subsets of each other.

> At any rate, I think you should ask Daniel Andreasson for his article on
Active
> languages.
I did.  This post included his pdf file designation.


Sally Caves
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