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Some quick typological observations supported by glossed sentences:
qáwa-ja θúku hṍnõ-Ø
man-ERG bread eat-3sg
'The man is eating the bread.'
The object of an transitive sentence and the subject of an intransitive sentence aren't case marked. As we'll see, CQ has three cases:
- an absolutive case that doesn't receive a marker;
- an ergative case formed with -ja/-jä;
- an adpositional case formed with -ni/-nũ.
(to be continued later when I am less infuriated with the keyboard)
CQ is SV in intransitive sentences and SOV in transitive. The subject of a transitive sentence is marked by the suffix -ja/-jä.
qáwa-ja θúku hṍnõ-Ø
man-ERG bread eat-3sg
'The man is eating the bread.'
The object of an transitive sentence and the subject of an intransitive sentence aren't case marked. As we'll see, CQ has three cases:
- an absolutive case that doesn't receive a marker;
- an ergative case formed with -ja/-jä;
- an adpositional case formed with -ni/-nũ.
(to be continued later when I am less infuriated with the keyboard)