accusative and ergative languages

[Larry Trask]

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

[LT]

>> 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.

Indeed.  I was forgetting about Bichakjian.

Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk