Hi!
Mark J. Reed writes:
> On 5/14/07, T. A. McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> > Jeff Rollin wrote:
> > > I'm not sure what "mrl" refers to but tripartite languages are (a) a
> > > minority among world languages and (b) predominant in my language
> > > sketches!
> >
> > Monster Raving Loony probably --- obviously not a formal term.
>
> Yup. There are five possible ways of dividing (Subject, Agent,
> Patient) into subsets:
>
> S A P
> 1 1 1
> 1 1 2 Accusative
> 1 2 1 Ergative
> 1 2 2 Monster Raving Loony
> 1 2 3 Tripartite
>
> I don't know what we call the case where there's no morphosyntactic
> distinction at all among the three roles.
It was called 'clairvoyant' before in this list.
**Henrik