Re: Lenmoct
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 27, 2003, 0:17 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
> En réponse à Jake X :
> >After all the endless discussion on CONLANG over ways to treat
> >agent-patient relationship in Accusative, Ergative, and other systems,
> >I thought it would be interesting to make a gender based system,
> >where feminine nouns are assumed to be the subject, and masculine
> >nouns assumed to be the object. This was fun!
>
> Interesting idea, with shades of animacy hierarchy which exists in many
> languages in the world, except that usually females are equal or lower
than
> men in the hierarchy rather than higher...
I am so relieved that Jake didn't make the subject masculine and the object
feminine, like so much "gaze" theory. Bravo, Jake!
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
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