Re: Patient marking in active languages

> As far as I can see,
> the treatment of transitive verbs that don't map well onto the
> agent/patient pattern is going to be much the same as in accusative or
> ergative languages.
Ah, I see.  So being an active language doesn't matter wrt assigning
transitive roles to cases.

taliesen, carbeck: It was based on the notion of the agent being the one
that performs an action.  All the verb examples describe something that is
passive for all involved parties so there would be no agent.