Re: erg/abs; verbs.

Hej Jens!

Welcome to the list! I'm sure you will like it! And it's nice to
have one more guy from Sweden. We're not that many.

> I think that it is more common that verbs in an erg/abs system agree with
> the ergative.(But they probably might agree with both in some languages.)
> Also, languages might be ergative in the sense that verbs agree with the
> intransitive subject and the transitive object in the same way even thought
> they do not mark cases on any of them.
I wonder which is most common. To actually have cases, or just agreement
on the verbs. Johanna Nichols has a summary of active languages and
all of them mark it on the verb, but none on the NPs. The lgs that
she calls Dominant Ergative seem to mark the ergativity mostly on
both pronouns and NPs and many times on the verb as well. I wonder
why active lgs so rarely use case, but ergative use it all the time?

Daniel