Betreft: VOS
| From: | Rob Nierse <rnierse@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 6:54 |
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I don't know if VOS automatically means that it is ergative.
Yucatec Maya is split ergative. It is nominative in imperfect and
ergative in perfect (or the other way round, I start to doubt now) aspect.
Rob
>>> BP Jonsson <bpj@...> 04/24 8:05 >>>
I read somewhere that Mayan is VOS. I suppose this really means it's
ergative, doesn't it?
What other VOS languages are there? Are they ergative or non-ergative?
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson
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