Re: THEORY: Can Ditransitive Verbs Agree With More Than Two Core A...

Actually, given that the P only agreement on accusative isn't 0% (as it
should be, if verbal morphology only was the basis of classification) I
have no clue how the study dealt with splits between verbal person
marking and the case system....

> Although keep in mind that study seems to be classifying verbal person
> agreement *only* as accusative, ergative etc. As I said, there are some
> languages which have ergative case systems (or ergative marking for some
> arguments) but accusative agreement, but under that study I think they
> would be classified solely as accusative since the study was one of
> verbal person agreement. Further categories in the table based on the
> alignment of the case system (if there is one) would have been helpful.
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