Inverse marking (was: Kijeb text uploaded)

Jeffrey Jones skrev:
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 19:31:20 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
> wrote:
>
>
>>I have uploaded a short Kijeb text with interlinear
>>analysis to <http://wiki.frath.net/Kijeb_texts>.
>
>
> I see that you have one of my favorite language features: inverse marking.
>
Yeah, I thought it fitted in an animate-inanimate system!

Originally I had inverse marking whenever the agent was
higher in the Nominal Hierarchy than the patient, but
Alex Fink on this list thought that be unrealistic, so
I changed it so that inverse marking is used only when
the agent is inanimate and the patient animate
<http://tinyurl.com/njes8>,<http://tinyurl.com/o4mll>,
<http://wiki.frath.net/Nominal_Hierarchy>, but now it
seems from a remark in Barry Blake's book "Case"
that there actually are natlangs that operate as I first
envisaged.  What is your opinion on this?

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/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

    "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
    it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
    means "no"!

                            (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)