Re: THEORY: What is an active language (was Re: Active case-marking natlangs)
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 6, 2001, 14:27 |
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:21:05AM -0800, Marcus Smith wrote:
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> You clearly paid very little attention to what I had to say on the matter.
> As I said when we discussed activity before, Chickasaw is certainly active,
> and it certainly has a case system. But the active marking is distinct from
> the case system -- the two co-occur in the same language, and have very
> little to no influence on each other.
[snip]
Could you expand on this distinctness a bit? It caught my eye that active
marking can be simultaneous and separate from the case system. Are you
saying that nouns have two kinds of markings, syntactic (case) and
semantic (active)?
T
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