Parallelism of alignment types between S-A-P, and P-R-T.
Languages are distinguished along the alignment pattern between (mono-)transitive A or P, and intransitive S(Dixon 1994), so that we have 4 alignment types: The accusative (S aligns w/ A), the ergative (S aligns w/ P), the neutral (they all aligns altogether, e.g, S, A and P are all zero-marked), and the tripartite (S, A, and P are all marked differently; extremely rare) alignment. Similarly, th..
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