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Akan64bacc1
Akan64bneutral1
Amharic64bacc1
Ika64bacc1
Ika64berg1
Bernese German64bacc1
Bwamu64bacc1
Czech64bacc1
Jula64bneutral1
Ninkaré64bacc1UP
Ninkaré64bneutral1UP
Finnish64bacc1
Gagauz64bacc1
Mongolian64bacc1NA
Linxia Chinese64bacc1
Linxia Chinese64bneutral1
Huarong Chinese64bacc1UP
Huarong Chinese64bneutral1UP
Ancash Quechua64bacc1
Hungarian64bacc1
Indonesian64bneutral1
Italian64bacc1
Jejueo64bacc1
Kangle Chinese64bacc1
Kangle Chinese64bneutral1
Kazakh64bacc1
Standard Mandarin64bacc1S
Standard Mandarin64bneutral1P
Marathi64bacc1UP
Marathi64berg1UP
Mopan Maya64bacc1UP
Mopan Maya64berg1UP
Mooré64bacc1
Nepali64bacc1UP
Nepali64berg1UP
Nepali64btripartite1UP
Newari64berg1UP
Turkish64bacc1
Polish64bacc1
Slovene64bacc1
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian64bacc1
Cochabamba Quechua64bacc1
English64bacc1UP
English64bneutral1UP
Standard German64bacc1
Thai64bneutral1
Tunen64bacc1
Upper Sorbian64bacc1
Vietnamese64bneutral1
Oromo64bacc1

(64) What is the type of alignment comparing intransitive and transitive clauses?

Alternatives to be checked: accusative / ergative / neutral / tripartite

b) pronominal arguments

accusative alignment: S marked like A (head- and dependent-marking), O is different (dependent-marking)

He walks (up the stairs).
S
He hates me.
A O

Explanation: Accusative alignment refers to the same marking of S and A (e.g., nominative, unmarked), while O has a different marking (e.g., accusative). In ergative alignment, S is marked like O (e.g., absolutive, unmarked), while A has a different marking (e.g., ergative). In a neutral alignment, all three (S, A, O) remain unmarked morphologically. In tripartite alignment, all three have different marking.

Please check for both head-marking (verbal agreement) and dependent-marking (case marking) and indicate whether there is a difference in alignment of the two.

Please indicate whether there is some sort of split phenomenon in which pronouns or a set of nouns behave differently.

Background: Ergativity seems to be more common in languages with O-V order.