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.