Re: ergative? I don't know...

Matt Pearson wrote:

[comprehensive explanation snipped]

I suggest that "A, S, P" are *syntactic roles*.

Now if someone will just explain the difference between "case" and
"Case", the millennium will indeed have arrived (more than a year
early).

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)