Talk:Noun cases
Revision as of 08:48, 27 December 2009 by 98.155.42.111 (talk) (Created page with 'Hi, I know Frommer uses the terms 'agentive', 'patientive', etc., but that is nonstandard. Agentive/patientive are the cases of "split-S" systems, which Na'vi is not. As for "su…')
Hi,
I know Frommer uses the terms 'agentive', 'patientive', etc., but that is nonstandard. Agentive/patientive are the cases of "split-S" systems, which Na'vi is not. As for "subjective", it implies the existence of a subject, which in turn implies the existence of a nominative--that is, the language would need to be syntactically nominative-accusative, which it possibly is, but also have conflated the nominative with topicality, and in any case the "subjective" is not used for any such case. AFAIK the expected terms for a tripartite language are ergative, accusative, and intransitive case. --Kwami 08:47, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
