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Conlangery #36: Morphosyntactic Alignment

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The Different Types of Transitive Verbs

It's like the transitive of the verb is being marked on the argument somehow. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you just say it, when you just mention it. And in the part where you would... The transitive sentences where I would think you would want to distinguish the two. So the fact that the both transitive arguments take the same marking is weird to me. That's why the conlangers call it what they do.

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