accusative and ergative languages

Rick Mc Callister rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu
Thu Jun 10 20:20:51 UTC 1999


Can you give examples?

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>There are some quite obvious counterexamples: Modern Indic is very close
>to being ergative; Kurdish too; Lithuanian is well on its way; and
>Eskimo has accusative remains in the pronouns.

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