Re: THEORY: Alignment of ditransitive with monotransitive case roles.

Tom wrote:
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(7) Does anyone besides me find these ideas interesting?
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(4) Are their attested natural languages that are in each of the
following pairs of types:
      (a)     Accusative and Secondary
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I actually thought that Moro was like this, but as it turns out,
there's simply a marker that marks proper nouns optionally
whenever they're not the subject.

Matthew Dryer discusses some of these things in several of his
papers.  I can't find the one I'm thinking of, but it's probably on
his website here:

http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/dryer.htm

He's written a *lot*!

-David
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