LIN306H1 : Lecture notes
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Reference format, improper citation, discuss examples after introducing them. Other articles can refer to p as o (as in aso=asp) Discriminatory view versus indexical view not gg. Discriminatory main purpose of all these case differences is to distinguish subject from object: functional view gg is not functional. Indexical view just marking the np or verb with certain properties. From ergative/absolutive system s and p usually get zero marking: put zero marking on animate and inanimate. Cutoff 1st and second in accusative case; the rest in nominal: rest after cut off cannot be same case as the one before cut off. Speech in real context - more than one sentence said. Grammatical change or operation: active versus passive sentence. derive passive sentence in course of building tree. do not take active sentence and make it passive. Antipassive where passive takes p and turns it into s; in passive, a becomes oblique, not getting structural case.
