Re: Imperative mood in ergative languages

> 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.


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