Re: Unresolved problems in Lyanjen morphosyntactic nomenclature

"Matt M." wrote:
> What do you think of the case names "subjective", "agentive," and
> "patientive"?
That could work, but I'd prefer the terms "intransitive", "ergative" and
"accusative".  Third-person sentient clitics in Uatakassí are on such a
system, but I use the term "absolutive" instead of "intransitive", but
only because it's analogous to the absolutive forms in the non-sentient
third-person clitics (which are ergative/absolutive), analogous in that
the absolutive singular forms are identical to the respective
gender-prefixes.

First and second person clitics, incidentally, work on a
nominative/accusative system.

> I don't know what to call the class of prefixes in question. I've
> tentatively settled on "valency", but I don't know if that makes sense.
> Suggestions?
I don't have any suggestions, but that is a really cool system.

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