Re: conjugating by object
| From: | Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 5, 2003, 20:20 |
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Hello,
> > > What natural languages do this? It's fascinating.
> >
> > Not exactly this, but the Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Aleut (and
> Cree, I hear)
> > languages express the person of the actant which is higher on the
> > deictic hierarchy (hierarchies vary). Thus, in Aleut, 'I
> love her' and
> > 'She loves me' are expressed identically.
>
> Cree, like other Algonkian languages, expresses the person of
> the actant according to an animacy, not a deixis, hierarchy,
My bad.
(I wrote in 'deictic' after writing the whole sentence, which originally
dfidn't mention Cree :-))
> This thus constitutes an entirely separate system for grammatical
> relations, to stand beside nominative-accusative, ergative-absolutive,
> Split-S, and Fluid-S systems.
What are Split-S and Fluid-S?
Pavel
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