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Re: THEORY: Ergative syntax

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Thursday, December 6, 2001, 19:58
Quoting "Y.Penzev" <isaacp@...>:

> Re: Henrik Theiling on Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:09 AM > > > Maybe the cases in Georgian should be renamed then to internative > and > > externative. :-) > > As far as know, the Georgian name for ergative is smth like > 'narrative',
Indeed. In Georgian, the <mocxrobiti> case.
> and it's used only with certain verb forms like perfect.
It's usually called the aorist, actually. ===================================================================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> <http://home.uchicago.edu/~trwier> "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n / Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..." University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought / 1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn" Chicago, IL 60637 Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers

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