THEORY: Ergativity and polypersonalism
From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, January 18, 2005, 21:39 |
Hi,
Studying materials about ergativity for my new project, I found an
interesting tendency. If the lang has ergativity, it usually has a
polypersonal verb, that is a verb form explicitly denotes person and number
of both subject and object. I found this in Basque, Georgian, Koryak and
Chukchi. Is it as much universal, or you can show me examples of natlangs
that have ergativity without a polypersonal verb?
Thank you in advance.
-- Yitzik
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