Re: erg/abs; verbs.
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 14, 2000, 22:53 |
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FFlores wrote:
> What happens in intransitive sentences, then?
I've never heard of any language that agrees with "ergative", but there
are ergative languages where the verb agrees with "nominative", that is,
ergative in transitives, absolutive in intransitives. Watakassí verbs
agree with the absolutive, which is part of the reason that it has
nominative clitic pronouns (yes, they are nominative, clitic pronouns
are on an active system)
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