
Conlangery #43: Adpositions
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Snicky Cock On. The Clinic Assimilates Place of Artikulation
Inanimate nouns are avoided as the subjects of verbs, of transderbs. When an animate participant is in a role that would normally place it in an o syntactic position, the argument will generally be shifted out of the opposition to some other position of higher prominence. Things that are topics are unambiguously definite. It just seems a little bit weird to me to have topic on one end and focus way at the other. I don't know how common that is in natural languages.
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