Re: Ergativity Question

I keep reading:

"X ng Y ang Z sa W = Z is Y's X with reference to W"

which is typically how an attributive language works, so I would suggest
again that Tagalog is not a verbal language. The predicate of an attributive
language is an attribute, not a verb, and it is therefore useless to look
for "control" through ergativity or subject.

"Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> wrote:
<<<
BTW, I spoke to a colleague of mine who studies Tagalog and other
Philippine languages about the issue of ergativity in Tagalog, and
he said more or less definitively that it isn't ergative, but that
it's not clear what exactly it is. Since it's not clear it even
has a subject, it's impossible to prove it's ergative.
>>>
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