accusative and ergative languages

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl
Tue Aug 3 18:45:23 UTC 1999


Larry Trask <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk> wrote:

>Even the great
>Otto Jespersen, to cite just one name, believed in primitive languages
>and in absolute progress in grammatical systems.  But nobody believes in
>this stuff today.

Except, apparently, Bernard H. Bichakjian.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl



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