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Conlangery #36: Morphosyntactic Alignment

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Alignment in Languages

Some languages mark your direct object, an indirect object with the same case marking. And then you have things like Russian and various other languages that have dative experience or subjects. Where does the data fit into all of these patterns? Does it exist at all? It's just that we're probably going to talk more about the ergative systems in this episode because that's the whole topic.

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