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Re: active vs. semantic marking languages (was: Re: Noun tense)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, July 25, 2002, 4:04
Daniel Andreasson Vpc wrote:
> Nominative: I-nom eat. > Ergative: I-abs eat. > Active: I-agt eat. --- I-pat sleep.
Ergative would be I-erg eat. I-abs eat would mean "I am eaten" :-) -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>