Rara #138

Legacy number: 138

 Number  138
 Phenomenon  mixed ergative-accusative alignment,
with person prefixes on intransitive verbs cross-referencing subject and person prefixes on transitive verbs cross-referencing object (=absolutive),
while verbs also take person suffixes, which cross-reference subject both with intransitives and transitives (=nominative)
 Found in  Burushaski (isolate)
 Domain  syntax — grammatical relations: alignment
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  nominative, absolutive, cross-reference, person, intransitive, transitive
 Source  Berger, Hermann (1992). Das Burushaski: Schicksale einer zentralasiatischen Restsprache. In Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Jg. 1992, Bericht 1, p. 21
 Violates  ?

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