Morphosyntactic alignment is often difficult to grasp when you first learn about it, but once you understand it, it is really quite simple. In this video I talk about different ways that languages can indicate who is performing an action and who the action is performed on: nominative-accusative, ergative-absolutive, tripartite, neutral, transitive-intransitive, direct-inverse and Austronesian alignment.
Many of the sample sentences in this video were taken from Wikipedia.
0:00 Introduction and Background
1:27 The Three Roles
1:58 Nominative-Accusative
3:10 Ergative-Absolutive
4:18 Split Ergativity
5:20 Active-Stative/Split Intransitive
6:06 Tripartite
6:50 Neutral
7:30 Transitive-Intransitive
8:29 Combinations of Alignment
8:53 Direct-Inverse
9:40 Austronesian
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