Re: Inverse marking (was: Kijeb text uploaded)

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>However, Split-S systems and Split-Ergative systems are not the same as
>Hierarchical systems, even though the "hierarchy" is intimately involved in
>deciding exactly where the "split" in the Split-Ergative system will be.
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I'm late in on the topic, but ... isn't "hierarchical alignment" a rather
different beast from nom/acc, erg/abs, split-S etc. alignment schemes in
that the latter are "primarily" about the case-marking of nouns, and the
former "primarily" about word order? So if verb agreement isn't important, a
language could easily have both "hierarchical" and "case" alignment, no?

John Vertical