| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 19, 2004, 0:57 |
In a message dated 11/18/2004 5:09:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, Rodlox@HOTMAIL.COM writes:>> syntactic ergativity, on the other hand, is much rarer - it's attested >> in dyirbal (an austronesian language, pronounced like gerbil, which >> amuses me *still*)>two questions -- where in Austronesia is/was Dyirbal spoken?It's not Austronesian; it's Australian. It's spoken in Queensland [northeastern Australia]. Doug