Re: Georgian Case (Was Re: Polysynthetic nouns)

Thomas wrote:

<<Just call it "ergative";  "narrative" case is nonstandard among anglophone
Kartvelologists.>>

<<snipping the rest>>

As anyone can see by reading Thomas's post, I made dozens of mistakes.
Some were just type-o's (I accidentally wrote "he" when I'd very clearly
written the word for "man".   Sorry if I gave anybody the impression that
Georgian used the word for "man" as a masculine pronoun), but others
are indicative of the sources I was using.   First of all, my presentation 
was
an attempt to explain Stephen Anderson's *deeply* flawed explanation of
the Georgian verbal agreement system (it prompted the following from
my professor: "Now we know how Georgian children learn to speak.   If
they want to say something, they just call up Anderson and ask him how."),
and in order to cull some examples (which were few and far between in
Anderson's paper), I created my own based on this website:

http://www.armazi.com/georgian/

which is a descriptive grammar, not (to the best of my knowledge) written
by a linguist.   All the terminology is different, and there's a lot that 
isn't
explained that needs to be.   I blame this site for my confusion about the
preverbs!   ;)   Just kidding: It's all me.   And what I meant by saying that 
pre-
verbs are essentially meaningless is that they're meaningless 
*inflectionally*.
Of course they're derivational prefixes.   What I meant was that if you were
going to try to attach inflectional information to the preverbs, you'd be led
down a long and twisted road.

My apologies for all the gaffes.   Everything was done from memory.

-David
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