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-===== Language notes =====
-==== Passive vs antipassive ====
-**Nominative-Accusative Languages:**\\
-Active voice:\\
-John-NOM carry vase-ACC.\\
-"John carries the vase."
-Passive voice:\\
-John-NOM carry-PASS.\\
-"John is carried."
-Antipassive voice:\\
-none
-**Ergative-Absolutive Languages:**\\
-Active voice:\\
-John-ERG carry vase-ABS.\\
-"John carries the vase."
-Passive voice:\\
-John-ABS carry-PASS.\\
-"John is carried."
-Antipassive voice:\\
-John-ABS carry-APASS.\\
-"John carries [vase implied through context]."
-===== Proto-Imperial =====
-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphosyntactic_alignment|Morphosyntactic alignment]]: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergative%E2%80%93absolutive_language#Optional_ergativity|Ergative-absolutive, but with ergative marking increasingly likely to be dropped]] with lower levels of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animacy|animacy]].
-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_typology|Morophological typology]]: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language|agglutinative]]
-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order|Word order]]: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutive_case|subject]]-verb ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_verb|intransitive]]), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergative_case|agent]]-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutive_case|object]]-verb ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive_verb|transitive]])