@human.1011: You might have to watch this one a couple times through for it to stick 😅 #linguistics #languages #ergativity #TikTokLearningCampaign #LanguageLearning

𝐏◆𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐭 🌺💎 :

"he likes him*

ulakanakulot :

so the sleepee sleeps

Lula :

Then you have languages like Kurmanji that are only ergative in the past tense 😅

sir_eriife275.0 :

wait so "the escaper escapes" is wrong

Zack Gbiorczyk Gbiorczyk :

Buggabug :

youre my favourite linguistics guy on tiktok but sadly recently the bar went down for that

Remy Eibrahim :

doesn't this only work with words derived from french Verbs like "employer" and "employé" ? I can't think of an old English derived word that has that formulation....

oompaloompa :

hee hee

Jx¢k :

Lit x10 times more educational than school

DemonMode :

pee

LazerArcher :

is this related to the french participles that end with ée?

mr t :

what about "the employee likes him" in this sentence, everybody is in patient form😅 even tho this should be an agent-patient structure. doesnt this mean that the word "employee" is agruably an agent rather than a patient?😅 doesnt this mean that therefore english still "employs" (pun intended) accusative alignment?🤔

rolowciescie :

He pets cat cat sleeps isn't it the same?

Rikey :

the employer employs, not the employee. I always assumed that suffix comes from the french suffix -é(e) denoting the past participle. “The employee” is meaningfully the same as “the employed”, the “escapee” is the person who escaped. I see your point but I don’t understand how this is unique to this suffix in english and how it is different from any other unaccusative construction in english

venti :

It's because it's literally the French past participle suffix "-é" and many French reflexive verbs (verbs that need 'oneself' as object) are borrowed as or translated into intransitive verbs but still use the past participle to refer to their subject

DarthVader99911 :

The -ee suffix indeed functions like an ergativity-related marker when viewed through the lens of semantic roles in nominalizations, but in the strict morphological sense it is merely a derivational morpheme for creating nouns, not a case marker

Benjamin 🇨🇭🇪🇺 :

The most intuitive way I’ve heard ergativity explained is the difference in focus. Accusative languages focus on who is doing something (nominative case is usually the default unmarked case), and in ergative languages on what’s being done (the default absolutive case

PToB :

I adore your content

I5P 🤠 :

bladee

Ryan Attar :

“I liiike”…. Borat makes it a complete sentence!

worldwidetravels :

I get what you mean but I don't really agree with it. the employee could still be the agent of a transitive verb while in an ergative alignment that would not be possible

Leo :

I’m curious why you say “that’s ungrammatical” instead of “that’s grammatically incorrect”. What do you mean by this? Super cool video btw

🪬Louis🪬 :

Pee

⚡️⚛️🫪Piss Juice Box🫪⚛️⚡️ :

I wish this comment section was flooded with E memes 😔