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Conlangery #36: Morphosyntactic Alignment

Conlangery Podcast

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How to Split Ergative Systems in an Australian Language

"I don't think I would want to put three coronal distinctions in a language. That's a wind tunnel," he says. "Some people will like it, some people won't." He has always tried to add the feeler nasal to his languages but then never put it in any words. 'For a long, long time I've avoided having a nasal for every column, but some day soon, sooner than later, I'll have all of them'

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