Re: Georgian Case (Was Re: Polysynthetic nouns)

--- 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 ?


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Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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