Re: Antipassive
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 28, 2001, 6:30 |
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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.
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Eric Christopherson | Rakko
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