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Re: Further language development Q's

From:Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
Date:Thursday, September 16, 2004, 13:43
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:31:48 +0200, Carsten Becker
<naranoieati@...> wrote:

>2) Ayeri is a trigger language, that means fluid-S AFAIK. > The topic of a sentence can be any argument of a verb. > So is it possible, that one daugher language can > develop an nom/acc system and another one an abs/erg > system? I haven't found a tendency in Ayeri to one > of both ends yet, though. But I think because at least > the one standard version I have until now has no real > passive construction, it would tend to be accusative, > although there is a causative that makes some kind of > passive constructions possible: manáo -> manaisa > (to invent, v. -> invented, adj.)
What about this one?