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Conlangery #36: Morphosyntactic Alignment

Conlangery Podcast

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How to Split Ergatives in Natural Languages

There's multiple possibilities for mix and match there that occur in natural languages. Sometimes you might get split ergative, but instead of nominative accusative, you might get ergative split on tripartite. It's really important to note that you might have an ergative system in one part of your language and nominative accuser in another parts of your language. And I've got a link to a document that was for somebody giving a talk,. It's a handout, but it gives lots of possibilities of these. So we'll include that, yes. We'll put that in the notes and it will look good.

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