Re: Help in Determining Asha'ille Typology

Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:

> Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:
>
> > > 1) I eat food.
> > > 2) I run.
> > > 3) I fall.
>
> [...]
>
> > What would we call a language that marks "I" from (1) the same as "I" in
> > (3), and "I" in (2) the same as "food" in (1)? Beyond weird, that is.
>
> This would still be a split-S language.  Split-S languages are
> defined, in contrast to fluid-S languages, by the fact that verbs
> simply subcategorize for whether the single argument patterns as
> the NP-1 of transitives or NP-2 of transitives.  It is also
> characteristic of such languages that many verbs take the unexpected
> marking, such as patientive for run or agentive for fall.
I didn't state my question clearly enough to exclude the possibility of a
language with semantic marking. You could have language that uses

I:PAT fall

for a voluntary falling and

I:AGT fall

for involuntary. (Case names assigned to make sense with transitives.)

                                                 Andreas

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