Re: nom/accu pronouns erg/abs everything else

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!

Jeff

>
> On 5/14/07, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Reilly Schlaier writes:
> > > my conlang just morphed in this weird thing (to me)
> > > i've got erg/abs alignment everywhere except in my pronouns
> > >...
> >
> > Many (All?) Inuit-Aleut languages have this, e.g. Kalaallisut (West
> > Greenlandic).
> >
> > **Henrik
> >
>
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>

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