Split ergative languages always amazed me. How can you use a language that has two completely different grammatical systems depending on the tense? Do the nouns have to completely switch case every time, or is there one set of cases for the past and another for the present?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
momijizukamori
no subject
Date: 2009-01-15 10:25 pm (UTC)Split ergative languages always amazed me. How can you use a language that has two completely different grammatical systems depending on the tense? Do the nouns have to completely switch case every time, or is there one set of cases for the past and another for the present?