Re: nom/accu pronouns erg/abs everything else
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 14, 2007, 14:53 |
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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.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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