accusative and ergative languages

Ralf-Stefan Georg Georg at home.ivm.de
Mon Jul 19 11:42:32 UTC 1999


>In English, I can say: "John hit me, and he went away" or "I hit John and he
>went away". What is the discourse cohesion strategy for English?

Anaphora.

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