Re: Ergative + Accusative?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 21, 2000, 2:46 |
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The Gray Wizard wrote:
> AFMCL, amman iar
> morphological ergativity follows this animacy pattern as well.
W. uses nom/acc for the clitic pronouns. However, the free pronouns are
inflected like nouns, that is, abs/erg. 1st and 2nd person clitics only
have nominative and genetive, while 3rd person has nominative,
accusative, and genetive (I figured that the accusative clitics would be
easily lost in 1st and 2nd person since they would be redundant with the
absolutive personal inflection on the verb; while 3rd person verbal
inflections only distinguish sentient/non-sentient, thus 3rd person
clitics give extra information)
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