Re: nom/accu pronouns erg/abs everything else
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 14, 2007, 15:02 |
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On 5/14/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> Yup. There are five possible ways of dividing (Subject, Agent,
> Patient) into subsets:
Note that these five categories are not sufficient to categorize all
entire languages. For example, the so-called "Split S" languages
appear to be accusative in some utterances and ergative in others,
depending on additional criteria not captured in the S vs A vs P
distinction.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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