Re: 5th morphosyntactic category name?

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> Can't remember what you call the langs that make no distinctions...
>
> Agent, Patient, Intransitive...
>
> A!=P!=I Tripartite
> A=P!=I Monster Raving Loony
> A!=P=I Ergative
> A=I!=P Accusative
> A=I=P ?
Wikipedia on "Morphosyntactic alignment" says
"Direct":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphosyntactic_alignment

And it seems to use the staider term "transitive" for
"monster raving loony".

You left out "active" (with fluid-S or static-S subtypes),
where I is sometimes = S and sometimes = P
depending on semantic or lexical conditions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active-stative_language

This article seems to use the term "neutral" for
A=P=I:

http://loganhannah25.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/5-effective-tips-for-overcoming-writers-block-by-marco-bomfoco/

(No, I have no idea why the irrelevant article title.)

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