Re: Nominative vs. Ergative fright!!

Matt McLauchlin wrote:
> I'm a little insecure about this. My case system is my favourite thing in
> the whole language and I'm loath to give it up.
Don't.  I seem to recall reading that there are a few languages that
have such a system, so it's not impossible.  Unusual, yes, but not
impossible.

AFMCL, Utakassí uses such a 3-fold division in the 3rd person sentient
clitics, e.g., na = he.abs [I call your "nom" "abs"], nal = he.erg, nai
= he.acc [As I call your "abs", I doubt there's standard terminology
:-)]

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