Re: Non-humanoid langs

Hi!

Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> writes:
>...
> AFMCL, I think Br'ga is going to lack transitive verbs as such. There's a
> definite gray area between case markers and verbs (every verb is suffixed
> to its core argument (or conversely incorporates its core argument as a
> prefix) -- some verbs are core-Agent, others core-Patient, yet others
> core-Instrument, and so on). I need real terminology for this. Either
> there are hundreds of case marks and no verbs, or zero case marks and all
> verbs are intransitive. I'm leaning toward the latter, as it makes other
> kinds of coordination simpler to describe.
That's exactly the thought underlying the design of S11!  Clause is
basically a serial verb construction of noun-verb pairs in S11.

Interesting, do you have doc about Br'ga?

**Henrik

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