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Re: Standard Average European (was: case system)

From:Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Friday, April 11, 2008, 22:14
On 12/04/08 07:31:50, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> > 6.a prominence of anticausatives in inchoative-causative pairs; > > I think this has something to do with the use of the same form in > pairs like "the window broke" (inchoative) vs "he broke the window" > (causative) ??
I thought that was simply a consequence of accusative alignment. Obviously I don't understand something else here? ...
> French requires the pronoun, though. Remember the Grandsirian > reanalysis...
French is polysynthetic nowadays? -- Tristan.

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Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets <christophe.grandsire@...>Standard Average European