
Conlangery #61: amman îar
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The Importance of Syntactic Ergativity
On yar we have a lot of concern for syntactic stuff which is very subtle in ergative conlangs. In the second clause we use the passive because we've already established that we came west to let the man so we can drop. The detail for his interlinear is very high in some sections and pretty gappy and others i get the impression he was in the middle of fixing all of those uh-huh to make them more detailed using some um shoebox tool.
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