@CursedConfetti @benhamill ah yeah that's what you were telling me about on Saturday! I've heard of split ergativity where it's based on whether the "subject" is an agent, and I think you were telling me that in Austronesian languages they actually use ergative alignment for some marking and nominative-accusative for other kinds of marking on the same words?
apparently artifexian is going to make a video on at least the basics of ergativity at some point
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@CursedConfetti @cryptosphinx I just need a Mastodon feature where if someone writes about linguistics on here, it shows up in my mentions. This thread is great and I enjoyed the video and thank you both for being awesome.