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Re: Antipassive

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Thursday, March 23, 2000, 11:57
Jens:
> > > The cat(ABS) chased(ANTIPAS) the mouse(ERG) and went to sleep.
Nik:
> > Well, "mouse" wouldn't be in the ergative, but rather some other oblique > > case, but other than that, that's a perfect example.
Doug:
> Is there any one case that ergative languages prefer as their oblique case > for antipassive sentences?
Instrumental and Dative iirc. In Rinya I just changed it from Instrumental to Ablative. I don't know if that was a smart move. Ablative is already heavily over-used. Not to mention the Dative. Daniel