Conlangery #36: Morphosyntactic Alignment
Conlangery Podcast
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The Implications of Austronesian Alignment
Nominative accusatives are much more likely to have a straight up passive, but both of them can also have all possibilities that makes it match or available. Ergative absolutative languages are much morelikely to have an anti-passive. Both nominative accusatives and ergative absoluts could be used in the same way if they were chosen for different reasons.
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