13.2132, Qs: Benue-Congo Cognates, Ergative/"that-trace"

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Subject: 13.2132, Qs: Benue-Congo Cognates, Ergative/"that-trace"

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1)
Date:  Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:50:53 +0000
From:  Paul Duerksen <paul at svl.net>
Subject:  Benue-Congo cognates

2)
Date:  Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:59:35 +0200
From:  "Yehuda N. Falk" <msyfalk at mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject:  "that-trace" effect/ergative languages

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Date:  Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:50:53 +0000
From:  Paul Duerksen <paul at svl.net>
Subject:  Benue-Congo cognates

The Benue-Congo classification seems to depend almost entirely on
grammatical characteristics like noun-classes.  Is anyone aware of a
set of words which have cognates in the non-Batoid languages (like
Yoruba, Nupe, Igbo, Jukun, Tarok, Edo)?

Language-Family:  Niger-Congo; Code: NC


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Date:  Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:59:35 +0200
From:  "Yehuda N. Falk" <msyfalk at mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject:  "that-trace" effect/ergative languages

Does anyone out there have any information or references on
"that-trace" effects in languages that are plausibly analyzed as
syntactically ergative?  What I want to know is whether, in such
languages, "that-trace" effects relate to S/A, as they do in
nominative-accusative languages, or S/P, as one might expect for a
syntactically ergative language.

Thanks muchly.

Yehuda N. Falk
Department of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msyfalk/

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