Re: Word Order in typology

In a message dated 10/11/2004 3:26:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
chris.maths_student@NTLWORLD.COM writes:

>(Btw, why don't we say AVP instead of SVO etc?)
Sometimes, I do see "AVP" (or "AVO"), if the author is using "A" to mean
"subject of transitive verb" and reserving "S" for "subject of intransitive verb"
(as RMW Dixon does, for example).  Note that although "A" was obviously chosen
to be reminiscent of "agent", it is in this instance not synonymous with
"agent," if you're using "agent" to refer to a semantic role.

Doug