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

From:Clinton Moreland-Stringham <morelanc@...>
Date:Saturday, October 24, 1998, 6:05
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Yeah, this definitely looks like an active system. Here's a question, > for "he fell", if he didn't fall on purpose, but he could have prevented > it (i.e., it was due to his own carelessness), would it still be > patient, or would it be agent?
If he fell on accident, whther he caught himself or not, its aways in the experiencer case. Clinton