This episode has Matt and Rowan talking about case marking, a way to indicate what each noun is doing in the sentence. Specifically, what Matt refers to as "non-default case marking" - parts of languages where cases behave in ways that don't fit with their canonical uses in the rest of the language.
Paper mentioned: https://mitcho.com/subjex/aldridge.pdf
Many of the examples are from Ergativity by R.M.W. Dixon
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- Show
- FrequencyUpdated Monthly
- PublishedJuly 30, 2019 at 6:04 AM UTC
- Length42 min
- Episode8
- RatingClean
