Datapoint Tsimshian (Coast) / Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases
- Language
- Genus: Tsimshianic, Family: Penutian
- Feature
- Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases
- Value
- Ergative - absolutive
- References
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- Mulder 1994 (32)
Examples
| yagwa | hadiks | a | üüla |
| prs | swim | abs | seal |
| yagwa | t | huum | da | duus | a | hoon |
| prs | 3A | smell | erg | cat | abs | fish |
| ´nüüyu | nah | alyag | ad | a | sm´algyax |
| I | pst | speak | 3sg | prep | Coast.Tsimshian |
| ´nüüyu | in | hooy | gantamiis |
| I | top | use | pencil |
| ada | t | ´nüüyu | nah | niidz | a | ol |
| and | 3A | I | pst | see | erg | bear |

note: The case markers are attached phonologically to the preceding word. Personal pronouns are used only for emphasis; there is some neutralization of absolutive, ergative, and general preposition, but the glosses given can be justified in terms of other examples.