Re: nom/accu pronouns erg/abs everything else
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 14, 2007, 15:22 |
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On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:02:35 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
wrote:
> 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.
I'm typing in a passage from Dixon on the subject of languages with an
Erg/Acc split conditioned by nominals (as opposed to by verbs, or by
semantics). Give me just a few more minutes, and it'll be ready to be sent.
Paul
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