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Re: Imperative mood in ergative languages

From:JS Bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 24, 2006, 19:37
> English actually allows unergative syntax, though there's no morphology for it: > > Active: "We slaughter sheep easily." > Unergative: "Sheep slaughter easily."
Erm, I seem to have gotten confused. This example is actually unaccusative, I think (?). In any case, it's not actually parallel to the syntax that I called "unergative" previously in my message, so you should probably disregard this part. -- JS Bangs jaspax@gmail.com http://jaspax.com "I could buy you a drink I could tell you all about it I could tell you why I doubted And why I still believe." - Pedro the Lion

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