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Things to remember
Anel, Lady of Tides, and Kastun's gatekeeper; Sembral, Lady of Tongues, the muse of song and poetry
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
Morphosyntactic alignment: Ergative-absolutive, but with ergative marking increasingly likely to be dropped with lower levels of animacy.
Morophological typology: agglutinative
Word order: subject-verb (intransitive), agent-object-verb (transitive)