Re: THEORY: Ergativity and polypersonalism
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 20, 2005, 7:21 |
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On Wednesday, January 19, 2005, at 11:45 , damien perrotin wrote:
> Skrivet gant Isaac Penzev:
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>> Oh yes, now I remember that most Polynesian langs are considered
>> ergative!
>> Thank you for the information. Anyway, it looks like I'm going to enjoy
>> polypersonalism for my newest project, as the main sources of its
>> inspiration use it!
>>
>> -- Yitzik
>>
>>
>>
> Chechen is ergative and has verbal desinences, yet it is not
> polypersonnal. On the other hand a features of French (definitely
> accusative) can be considered polypersonnal.
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.
The Bantulangs are also polypersonal and those langs are of the accusative
type.
Ray
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