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==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Morphosyntactic alignment=== | ===Morphosyntactic alignment=== | ||
Proto-Afro-Asiatic's daughters seem to consistently hint at an earlier ergative system, whether it be the 'unbound' vs. 'bound' of Berber, the odd accusative marking for predicates and certain genitive constructions in Classical Arabic, Akkadian, and other Semitic languages, structural similarities between agentive markers and instrumentals, usw. I have chosen to fully embrace the ergative theory and construct a following opposition in NPs. | |||
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!agent-like | |||
|''*u'' | |||
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!patient-like | |||
|''*a'' | |||
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While several branches, of which, most notably Semitic show postposed forms of these, the Berber and other families in the phylum show preposed forms. No form seems particularly deserving of primacy as far as I can see so I'll allow free variation in Golden Afroasiatic. | |||
===Noun phrase=== | ===Noun phrase=== | ||
==Vocabulary== | ==Vocabulary== | ||