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Conlangery #36: Morphosyntactic Alignment

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Ergative Languages

English suffix e is often cited as sort of an erudive thing because it can mark someone who does a verb that's usually intransitive. Like absentee or cosy. You have to go into... The absent isn't intransitive, so absentee and then somebody to whom something is caused is a cosy. All sorts of weird mixes and matches are theoretically possible. But that's sort of like an edge case in English. There. And it's not even native to English, right? We stole that from the French. Yeah, a lot of those things will be sort of edge cases where there's traces of it. So I don't know if most con-langers

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