Re: ergative/accusative

I'll also go ahead and plug my own ergativity reference page:

http://dedalvs.free.fr/notes/ergativity.php

The name I gave to the system that treats the agent and direct
object the same but the subject of an intransitive verb differently
is a duative-unitive system.  Someone who read my website
concocted a very, very interesting system that I haven't described
on the page yet in which, essentially, there is no case marking,
but valency reduction is marked on the nouns.  I'll probably put
it up some time next weekend.

-David
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