Re: ergative/accusative

Den 28. jan. 2007 kl. 18.39 skrev David J. Peterson:

> I'll also go ahead and plug my own ergativity reference page:
>
> http://dedalvs.free.fr/notes/ergativity.php
Thanks for this. I understand Gaajan a little better now. So what I
have called mediopassive or middle and marked with -tu on the verb
and -me on the patient you call the antipassive. I think it's hard to
get the terminology right as well (I bother with it somewhat less
than I should I guess, as the only place where it's of any use is in
discussion).

Gaajan has no valency reduction, except that verbs may bed and'ed,
and it seems no split ergativity is relevant for Gaajan, except that
the pronouns are swallowed up by the auxiliaries and lose any other
relational marking. But I think it will have some of those "for the
woman, the panda was seen" type of sentences. Pandame amai uretu jai.
It fills a slot that was open before.

LEF