Re: Copulas

Kristian Jensen wrote:

> Edward Heil wrote:
> >
> >I haven't done any fully formed conlangs yet, but how can you
> >resist ergatives once you know about them?  I mean, come ON!  They
> >are JUST SO COOL!
>
> And how can one resist *NOT* having the distinction between ergative
> and nominative. I mean, come ON! Trigger languages with only one
> core argument are even cooler!! 8-)
Would Chleweyish be a trigger language?  some verbs accept two or more
arguments but it is semantics, not grammar, the one that tells of those
two subjects which is agent and which is pacient.  If you want to be
unambiguous no verb should have two or more subjects.

I don't know either if Hangkerimce is ergative or what... when I post
the standard phrase construction I hope it can be solved.