Re: conlang survey part 1

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:33:16AM -0600, Nik Taylor wrote:
> 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.
[snip]

*Wonders about non-accusative, non-ergative systems, such as Ebisedian.*
:-P


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