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This is getting rather off topic... why doesn't everybody keep criticizing me for wierd morphology?

R.Rusanov wrote:He got you, you really believed that was a real word didn't ya B)

Daechtiti... whatever is a real word.

He gave me a book, I was given a book by him. No "a book was given to me". Well, that means your language would be quite the outlier among natlangs. As I said, you'll find passives for the direct object "a book (kiss, handshake, gift) was given" much more frequently in natlangs than passives for th...

It's not, it's just for fun. But I was curious as to whether anybody else had thought of it. EDIT: How much better? Enlighten me. EDIT EDIT: Sorry, I messed up earlier. You cannot passivize indirect objects. However, the alignment system is different, such that the thing being given is the "secondar...

Well, this will be a weird language. Also, did I mention all the morphemes are consonant clusters and there are zero phonemic vowels (technically morpheme boundaries are articulated with a small pause, but in actuality they will be articulated with /a/).

No, the passive of "He gives me" (give.3sg-ERG.1sg-ACC) would be "I am given" (give.1sg-STAT). So you would use the S p for the passive voice. If you wanted to do "I am given by him" you could add an ergative 3sg on to the verb phrase. What would be the construction for "give" with a direct and an ...

No, the passive of "He gives me" (give.3sg-ERG.1sg-ACC) would be "I am given" (give.1sg-STAT). So you would use the S_p for the passive voice. If you wanted to do "I am given by him" you could add an ergative 3sg on to the verb phrase.

Are you referring to a system with different cases for (1) "active" intransitive arguments (S a ), (2) "stative" intransitive arguments (S p ), (3) transitive subjects (A), (4) transitive objects (P)? As far as I know this doesn't happen in any real world languages, but notionally it could happen. ...

I just came up with a new morphosyntactic alignment where active, stative, ergative, and accusative are all different.

Is this original?