accusative and ergative languages

[petegray]

> Pat said:
> .... Why not list two or three additional elements that function in
> Chinese equivalent to inflectional affixes?

The most obvious omission from your list is the "directional" affixes,
simple and complex, e.g.: lai (come); qi3-lai; etc
And you can add zhe, guo, zheng4zai4, yao4, ...etc etc all showing different
limitations to the action.

Whether you count these as "inflexions" or as "affixes" or as common second
elements in compound verbs, is probably a matter of taste.

There are books of Chinese verbs that list all these things for you, but
alas, I have none handy.

Peter