Re: 5th morphosyntactic category name?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 20:32 |
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
> Hallo!
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> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:12:33 -0400, Alex Fink wrote:
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>> "Clairvoyant" might be the word on the card.
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> Yes, that's the common nickname among conlangers, but not
> the technical term used by linguists. The technical term
> is "neutral", I think (though Wikipdia calls it "direct").
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> You will also not find "Monster Raving Loony" in linguistic
> literature. Wikipedia calls it "transitive".
Well, linguistic literature is boring. :)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>