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Interview with Sheri Wells-Jensen

Language Creation Society

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The Importance of Ergativity in Linguistics

Students get a deeper understanding, or at least an exposure to a deeper understanding of how the whole thing fits together. I don't think there's any way I could have gotten an ergativity just by having it explained. And in fact, I've seen plenty of undergraduate linguistics students that just have ergatively explained in a classroom setting and you just don't quite get it. If they had to build it into their system and then actually translate something, then it would stick.

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