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Re: Copula

From:Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
Date:Monday, March 19, 2007, 21:48
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, > > 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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