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Conlangery #35: Practicum – Getting Rid of Case Marking

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How to Use Polypersonal Agreement to Disambiguate Situations

When you have that inverse marking, you can take advantage of animacy hierarchies to do stuff. Or you could have the, what I did, the agreement on the verb, it's their person animate third person inanimate. And a lot of times it just ends up the animates doing something to the endanimate. That sounds creepy. Well, that's gender-ish. But when there's potential for confusion, you know exactly where the overt direct object is going to be. So that's one way to give yourself certain flexibility in word order, but still have no case marking. In Mohawk or Oneida, you slam the noun into the verb. Now it turns out high

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