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Re: Georgian Case (Was Re: Polysynthetic nouns)

From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Thursday, June 3, 2004, 5:26
--- David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...> wrote:
  Also, the
> ergative case is often > called the > "narrative" case (because it's only used in the past > tense).
That's very interesting. I read something like that before, but I didn't quite realize the implications. Do you mean for ex that for these two sentences: - I'm sneezing - I sneezed the ergative is used only for the secund case (there was a sneeze from/to me ? Or is it a bad example ? Maybe the 1st person behaves another way ? Do you have a better example ? ===== Philippe Caquant "High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/