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by lryda mbazha
Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:28 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
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I guess what I have right now is best described as ergative-dative. But in ditransitive sentences, the agent takes a special case, not otherwise used except as a locative, while the receiver takes the (usually) absolutive case and the theme is in the ergative. Also, with a passive verb and an agent ...