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[lojban] Re: nominative-accusative & ergative-absolutive



On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
I say either Lojban doesn't have a morphosyntactic alignment, or it has one
that no natlang has.

Formally, it is a bit weird, but I think that the actual cognitive structures that speakers of Lojban use are the same as those used by speakers of accusative languages (and that would be the case even if a monolingual native speaker of an ergative language learned Lojban fluently.)

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Adam Raizen <adam.raizen@gmail.com>
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