Re: THEORY: Can Ditransitive Verbs Agree With More Than Two Core A...

Chris Bates wrote:

> tomhchappell wrote:
>
> >A paper on the topic in question is at
> >http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/Arthur/caucprojreport.pdf
> >
> >It is on the possible relationship between Basque and Caucasian
> >languages.
> >It includes a discussion of poly-personal agreement.
> >
> >
> Oh god, please, not more Basque relationship theories. All the common
> ones so far have been pretty sucessfully debunked, or at least the
> evidence and methodology they're based on has been.
>
Don't worry-- the writer finds no convincing evidence in the
ergative/poly-personal areas and doesn't otherwise go out into left field.
:-))) I think Trask's discussion nicely debunks all the various
relationships-theories of Basque ("History of Basque").