Ergative or Vocative?
From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, October 5, 1999, 19:41 |
Question. I'm working on some basic grammar in Tech, whatever I can at this
time. So far I have a few noun cases worked out, and I think I'm going to
decline nouns according to this scheme:
'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?
Thanks,
Danny
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