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Re: Antipassive

From:Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
Date:Thursday, June 28, 2001, 6:30
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:56:31PM +0100, O'Connell James wrote:
> Its only a niggle, but 'exist in languages with > ergativity' should read 'exist in languages with > syntactic ergativity' in my opinion. For Example, > Elenyo is morphologically ergative, yet has no > antipassive, mainly because co-referentiallity is > actually displayed by an affix system removing the > need for a pivot relationship etc. > > James
Hey, what is the distinction between syntactic and morphological ergativity? I can never keep concepts like syntax straight in my head. -- Eric Christopherson | Rakko

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