Re: Ergative or Vocative?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 5, 1999, 23:07 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
> Nominative weat k@ul [wE:t, k@ulw]
> Oblique stem weta- k@lu- [wEta, k@lu]
> Accusative wetaam k@luam [wetam, k@luVm]
Why is the {e} in "wetter-" pronounced [E], while in "wetted" it's [e]?
> Gen. of acc. wetamaun k@lumaun [wetamaunw, k@lumaunw]
What's "gen. of ace."?
> So for the zero-ending, what would be more likely in a natlang -- a vocative
> case or an ergative?
Vocative, a unrounding ergative would be pretty unusual.
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