Re: Basque/Georgian

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 1492
Date: 2000-02-14

Gerry:
>What I've been able to understand so far is that all Indo-European
>languages are nominative. Likely Proto Indo-European was ergative.

Erh, no. Definitely not ergative at this late stage. The ubiquitous
accusative *-m is too much proof of the archaicy of the use of an
accusative.

- gLeN
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