ABSTRACT
In this connexion something must be said about a grammatical feature which is found in some out-of-the-way languages and which by some writers is thought to throw some light on the primitive stages of our own family of languages, namely the distinction between a casus activus or transitivus and a casus passivus or intransitivus. In Eskimo one form ending in -p is used as the subject of a transitive verb (when there is an object in the same sentence), while another form is used either as the subject of an intransitive verb or as the object of a transitive verb, e.g.
