Datapoint Tukang Besi / Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases
- Language
- Genus: Sulawesi, Family: Austronesian
- Feature
- Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases
- Value
- Ergative - absolutive
- References
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- Donohue 1999a (51)
Examples
| no | tinti | na | ana |
| real.3 | run | abs | child |
| no | 'ita | 'e | na | kene | no | te | ana |
| real.3 | see | 3 | abs | friend | 3 | erg | child |
| no | like | mo | na | ia |
| real.3 | wake.up | pfv | abs | he |
| ku | ita | 'e | na | ia |
| 1sg | see | 3 | abs | he |
| no | topa | 'e | te | ia |
| real.3 | slap | 3 | erg | he |
note: argues that the bivalent construction as given above is more basic, but an alternative omits the object agreement suffix and inverts the prepositions. If one were to take this alternative as basic, then na would be nominative, te accusative.