Re: Attached Verbs
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 20, 2001, 23:23 |
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J Matthew Pearson wrote:
> I know a bit about ergativity, and it seems weird to me too. In my
> conlang Tokana, which is sort of ergative
> (cf. the recent thread on active languages), the linking verb,
> equivalent to "be" in English, takes two absolutive arguments.
Well, Arabic uses accusative for the "object" of "to be" (i.e., treating
it as if it were a typical verb), so if that's possible, why wouldn't
ergative be possible as the subject of "to be"?
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