Questions tagged [morphosyntactic-alignment]
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Languages with direct-inverse verbal inflection or hierarchical alignment but no verbal inflection for person
Some languages have direct-inverse marking on verbs or hierarchical alignment.
I'm wondering whether there are any attested examples of minimal direct-inverse systems where the verb is obligatorily ...
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Does Subject vs Object matter in languages with ergative absolutive marking
If a language has an ergative absolutive alignment in which subjects and objects of clauses are marked for absolutive marking does the distinction between subject and object ever get difficult to ...
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Direct–inverse marking on the noun, or the possiblity of inverse alignment
A direct-inverse language, Wikipedia claims, is one which
involve[s] different grammar for transitive predications according to the relative positions of their "subject" and their "object" on a ...
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