Re: Copula
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 19, 2007, 21:48 |
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On 3/19/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Jim Henry wrote:
> > ...If the language has a passive voice at all, that is?
> > If a language has no active/passive voice marking,
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> Does such a natlang actually exist among nominative-accusative
> languages? (Obviously ergative languages behave differently - and, of
> course, with conlangs anything is possible).
I thought I had heard of such a language somewhere,
but since I can't remember details it's likely enough that
I'm misremembering -- probably the languages I've
read about as having no passive voice are
ergative or active or tripartite.
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry
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