Re: THEORY: unergative
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 20:54 |
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Jonathan Knibb wrote:
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> Sorry for the blatantly non-conlang-related post, but I came across the word
> "unergative" today and, not being a linguist or knowing any personally,
> couldn't find out what it meant.
Unergative and unaccusative refer to intransitive verbs. An unergative
verb is one whose single argument is a patient, like "burn", while an
unaccusative verb is one whose argument is agentive, like "speak"
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