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Conlangery #36: Morphosyntactic Alignment

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Agent Focus

The most accessible and well documented language that does this is Tagalog. And we should also mention that's not the only kind of split you can have. There's a couple other very common ones having to do with the agency of the subject itself. Right. And then the last of the alignments is a little bit weird. It's the Austronesian alignment. But it's hard for me to even think about this as a normal kind of alignment. There's something else funky going on here. The point is that your verb gets marked in a particular way. Are you focusing on the agent? Are you focusing upon the patient? Okay, so... Tagalog does not have those last

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