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How does a language end up with ergative-absolutive alignment on nouns, but nominative-accusative in verb concord?
Let's analyse the Nepali example given by Coon:
मैले यस पसलमा पत्रिका किने।
mai-lē yas pasal-mā patrikā kin-ē.
1SG.ERG DEM store-LOC newspaper.ABS buy-PAST-1SG
'I bought the newspaper in this store.'
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