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by Mwanatabu
Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:21 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
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Yen groups S and A together, and does the same with P , R and T . Since syntactical roles are unmarked (no case system), it indeed relies completely on context to figure out which is which, although animate objects will preferably appear earlier in the verbal clause than inanimate ones. Actually, w...
by Mwanatabu
Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:40 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 132024

Yen groups S and A together, and does the same with P, R and T.
Since syntactical roles are unmarked (no case system), it indeed relies completely on context to figure out which is which, although animate objects will preferably appear earlier in the verbal clause than inanimate ones.