Re: nom/accu pronouns erg/abs everything else
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 14, 2007, 17:33 |
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On 5/14/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> > Mark J. Reed writes:
> > > I don't know what we call the case where there's no morphosyntactic
> > > distinction at all among the three roles.
> >
> > It was called 'clairvoyant' before in this list.
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> That's it! I remembered someone calling it "neutral", but knew it had
> a snarkier nom du CONLANG. :)
TTBOMK, both "monster raving loony" and "clairvoyant" derive from
http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/r.html , rather than being
original on this list.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>