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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. > >
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.