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Re: THEORY: Ergativity and polypersonalism

From:damien perrotin <erwan.arskoul@...>
Date:Thursday, January 20, 2005, 11:49
Skrivet gant Ray Brown:

> Yes indeed - the pre-verbal complements are bound morphemes. It is > only by > convention and for reasons of etymology that we put white space between > the morphemes. >
there is also the infamous "agreement of the past partiiple", which often means that in many past tenses the verb (verbal syntagm in fact) agrees in gender and number with both its subject and its object. Je l'ai prise - I have taken her je l'ai pris - I have taken him/it I'm not sure it qualifies, however.
> The Bantulangs are also polypersonal and those langs are of the > accusative > type. > > Ray
There is also hungarian : latlak : I see you

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Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...>