You realize that if you outlaw ergativity, you'll just drive it underground, and make it even harder to regulate. Better to keep it legal and above board, where you can be stringently prescriptive about it.
Ergativity can stay. It's the not-even-tripartite whatever-case-ending-strikes-our-fancy crowd that's pissing me off.
But I found whatshisname's paper (whatshisname = professor of cog sci at Stanford; did PhD at Stanford and was at CMU for a while in between; i forget his actual name), cleverly titled "Ergativity in Inuktitut," so once the midterm is over I'll have some entertaining light reading.
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Ergativity can stay. It's the not-even-tripartite whatever-case-ending-strikes-our-fancy crowd that's pissing me off.
But I found whatshisname's paper (whatshisname = professor of cog sci at Stanford; did PhD at Stanford and was at CMU for a while in between; i forget his actual name), cleverly titled "Ergativity in Inuktitut," so once the midterm is over I'll have some entertaining light reading.