Re: mixed system
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 1, 1999, 1:39 |
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"J.Barefoot" wrote:
>=20
> I was trying to decide what cases to have in this language spoken near
> Asiteya, and in my notes I came across the mixed system of core cases: =
nom,
> acc, and erg.
Well, some Australian languages have, for *some* nouns, a threeway
system of "nominative" (if you can call it that), accusative, and
ergative; "nominative" is specifically subject of an intransitive verb,
ergative =3D subject of transitive verb, accusative =3D object of transit=
ive
verb. In my first draft of Watakass=ED, I had such a system, but I soon
simplified it to an ergative system (with active-based pronominal
clitics)
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