Re: Word Order in typology
| From: | Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 11, 2004, 20:14 |
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Chris írta: "[Why] don't we say AVP instead of SVO etc?"
The terms "subject" and "object" deal with syntactic roles. OTOH, "agent"
and "patient" deal with argument roles. The terms are not interchangeable,
since in many Western languages at least, subjects can be agents, patients,
or experiencers (even tho they're marked with different cases-- but that's a
different story altogether!).
Trebor
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