Jeff Rollin wrote:
> On 14/05/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>> What about the other categories besides acc and erg (tripartite, mrl,
>> etc)? Do langs typically have only the big two represented?
>
> 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. They
treat transitive subject and object alike (using a transitive case), and
separate intransitive subject. Apparently there are certain Iranian
languages that actually use this system; hearers use context to work out
who’s doing what.
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Tristan.