Re: Split-Ergativity Madness
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 4, 2001, 7:40 |
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In a message dated 10/3/01 7:53:23 PM, amber@OJNK.NET writes:
<< What is Kurdish related to? Is it IE? >>
I'm not sure... It's spoken by a small group of people in Iran, I'm
told, though it's quickly disappearing. I think the reason why the
construction may look familiar (if, indeed, it turns out not to be related to
Hindi) is because a passive can often times turn into an ergative past
tense--or, at least, that's what my historical linguistics professor is
arguing.
-David
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