Re: Ergative or Vocative?

Danny Wier wrote:

>                 'water'     'bride'
> Nominative      weat        k@ul        [wE:t, k@ulw]
> Oblique stem    weta-       k@lu-       [wEta, k@lu]
> Accusative      wetaam      k@luam      [wetam, k@luVm]
> Genitive        wetaun      k@luun      [wetaumw, k@lu:n]
> Gen. of acc.    wetamaun    k@lumaun    [wetamaunw, k@lumaunw]
> Vocative?       weta        k@lu
>
> So for the zero-ending, what would be more likely in a natlang -- a vocative
> case or an ergative?
Well, since you already have a fairly typical nominative-accusative
system going here, I'd suggest vocative.