Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Ditransitive alignment splits and inverse alignment (Haspelmath)
This week's paper was submitted by u/Anhilare and talks about four universals of ditransitive marking, two of them concerning split alignment patterns, and two of them concerning inverse alignment patterns. In this week's TyPoW you will be able to talk about ditransitive constructions in your conlang! I hope the paper will broaden your linguistic horizons with regards to morphosyntactic alignment. Now onto the prompts:
- How do ditransitive constructions work in your language?
- Do ditransitives exhibit indirective, neutral or secundative alignment?
- Have you invented a completely new pattern for your language?
- If your language is inverse-marking, how does that aspect of its morphosyntax interact with ditransitive constructions?
Remember to try to comment on other people's languages
Submit your papers here!
So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!