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"Kapitano" <kapitano@hidden.email> wrote: > > I suppose what I'm asking is: Why does Katanda have > core arguments at all? > You have to express syntactic relationships in some way, so why not do it in the same way that most natural languages do it? Keep in mind that nominative/accusative and ergative/absolutive case marking systems do, in fact, mark core roles. The only languages that I know of that do NOT mark core roles, but which instead mark semantic roles, are the trigger languages of the Philippines. Regards, Rick Morneau http://www.eskimo.com/~ram