Re: Analyzing Ayeri's syntactic and voice alignment (long)

Errata --

Matahaniya ang Carsten Becker <carbeck@...>:

> reluctant to call the active and patient nominative and
agent and patient

>   (2b) Tenyayong.
>        tenya-(i)yong
tenya-yong

>   (2c) Məvantayāng.
>        mə-vanta-(i)yāng
mə-vanta-yāng

> in focus. On the other hand, (3b) has S=P, which would
> make '-(i)ya' be in the ergative, which would be the
> subject in this case instead.
Of course, it is not. I meant the absolutive is the subject.

Cheers
Carsten

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Tenena, Nonamay 20, 2317 ya 23:28:19 pd
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 06:55:32 am