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Conlangery #36: Morphosyntactic Alignment

Conlangery Podcast

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The Nominative Acclamative

There is an extremely small number of natural languages that do not mark the accusative. So already we have a weirdness. The normal typology is, oh, you have a simple form that's the nominative and you add something to get to the accusatives. There are a small number of languages that do the opposite.

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