More case alignment.
David Rood
Rood at Uni-Koeln.DE
Mon Feb 8 07:21:38 UTC 1999
Bob --
BE careful of this one; 'fall' is a standard meaning for stative
verbs in all the languages that have this active/stative pattern, so there
is certainly semantic pressure to retain the form as stative even if it's
etymologically otherwise.
You might also be intersted in an observation in Geoff Kimball's
grammar of Koasati about the stative verbs there. He maintains he can
prove that the inflections are genuine objects of impersonal verbs because
the negation paradigm requires third person subject negatives. See pp.
249ff. I don't have time to follow up on this now, but one should then
check the other criteria in Koasati for subject status: do nouns take the
nom or acc case when subjects of statives, and how does switch reference
work?
David
David S. Rood
Professor of LInguistics
Institut fuer Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet zu Koeln
D-50923 Koeln
email: rood at uni-koeln.de
email: rood at colorado.edu
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