Re: Let Me Introduce Myself
From: | Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, December 29, 2004, 22:47 |
>Eragitivity is neat, but there are more categories than just
>accusative and ergative - you mustn't forget tripartie languages, which
>are arguably the most logical, or Monster Raving Looney languages,
>which are arguably the least logical. :) I personally still find it
>hard to think ergativishly, though, so I've stuck with accusative
>conlangs so far.
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Ever since I started learning Basque Ergativity has become much easier
to process for me... before I had to think which case I was assigning
things to in my ergative conlangs, but now Ergativity has just...
completely clicked, instead of being understood but not intuitive. :)
*shrugs* So I guess you just need to practice using an ergative language
a little... :) It's similar to the way English speakers often have
difficulty with cases in languages like Latin and Russian for a little
while at the beginning since English doesn't work that way.