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Re: nom/accu pronouns erg/abs everything else

From:David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>
Date:Monday, May 14, 2007, 2:50
Reilly:
<<
my conlang just morphed in this weird thing (to me)
i've got erg/abs alignment everywhere except in my pronouns
anyone ever heard of that
cause i havent
and it seems very odd
 >>

The weird thing is when a language is entirely and unexceptionally
nominative/accusative or ergative/absolutive.  Most languages
show some signs of both types of alignment (and others).  Your
system is identical (from what it sounds like) to Sathir (one of
my languages), which is identical to a number of natural languages.

For more info, go here:

http://dedalvs.free.fr/notes/ergativity.php

-David
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