Re: conlang survey part 1
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 29, 2002, 6:33 |
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Heather Rice wrote:
> (Note: Absolutive, ergative were considered to be
> normative, accusative in these numbers. However, I
> realize this isn’t a completely correct use of these
> cases.)
Absolutive and ergative would be more accurately mapped to accusatve and
nominative respectively, as that is their analogues in transitive
sentences.
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