Re: CHAT: natural active case lang

Daniel Andreasson:

>Excuse this off-topic natlangy question, but this is
>getting frustrating. At least five times today, in three
>different classes at uni, we've been discussing case
>and semantic roles. Separately. I've been trying to
>say something about langs that use case to mark
>semantic roles, but then they ask me for examples
>and I can't really say Tokana, now can I? :)
>Then I start rambling about native American langs
>and perhaps Papua New Guinea, but then they
>just laugh. Hmm...
I guess you could start with Finnish... or do you mean something else?

Danny

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