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Conlangery #35: Practicum – Getting Rid of Case Marking

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How to Use Non-Incorporation to Mitigate the Effect of Losing Case

Non-incorporation takes the place of case marking in languages that are somewhat non-configurational. If you have polypersonal agreement and a fixed word order, it doesn't matter who the subject is. You always know who the direct object is. And really you should be thinking of all these features and sort of mix and match as you see what works good together. These particular first two that we've mentioned do happen to work very well together.

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