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

Thanks very much.

---Tom H.C. in MI

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "David J. Peterson" <dedalvs@G...>
wrote:
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> Another shameless plug:
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> http://dedalvs.free.fr/notes.html#ergativity
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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.
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> 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:
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> http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/dryer.htm
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> He's written a *lot*!
>
> -David
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