First Linguifex Relay/Kiwi: Difference between revisions
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*[[Kiwi#Plural|Formation of the plural]] | *[[Kiwi#Plural|Formation of the plural]] | ||
*[[Kiwi#Classes and adjectivisation|What does c8, c6 and ADZ mean?]] | *[[Kiwi#Classes and adjectivisation|What does c8, c6 and ADZ mean?]] | ||
===Definiteness=== | |||
Kiwi makes no distinction in definiteness. There is an indefinite article, meaning "one", though. | |||
===Morphosyntactic alignment and copula=== | ===Morphosyntactic alignment and copula=== | ||
Kiwi is unusual in that it has a marked nominative morphosyntactic system, which means that the nominative is marked on nouns, but the accusative is not. The language also does not have a copula, but two arguments lacking a verb get connected. | Kiwi is unusual in that it has a marked nominative morphosyntactic system, which means that the nominative is marked on nouns, but the accusative is not. The language also does not have a copula, but two arguments lacking a verb get connected. | ||