Re: Imperative mood in ergative languages
| From: | mike poxon <mike@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 24, 2006, 20:38 |
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Omeina uses a different auxiliary for ergative constructions, basically the
standard auxiliary with the ergative case ending!
This also enables other constructions to be used in a parallel fashion,
i.e.,
Gurku hauksa raisen "Kill the wolf"
gur - ku / hauksa / ra - ise - n
Kill - imp / wolf / you - erg - it
Gurku hauksa naisen "Let him/her kill the wolf"
Mike (from frosty, but probably not THAT frosty... U.K.)
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How then it works in imperative?
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