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Historically, Ancient Imperial was a heavily marked nominative-accusative language, though this description is rather nominal, as no inflection exists in modern Standard Imperial that might differentiate marked nouns. Modern Imperial shows tendencies toward an ergative-absolutive structure in its non-standard handling of objectless subjects and duplication of certain subjects to coerce them into transitive roles (see [[#Bi-Transitive Verbs|Bi-Transitive Verbs]], but not enough to be able to consider it an ergative-absolutive language. | Historically, Ancient Imperial was a heavily marked nominative-accusative language, though this description is rather nominal, as no inflection exists in modern Standard Imperial that might differentiate marked nouns. Modern Imperial shows tendencies toward an ergative-absolutive structure in its non-standard handling of objectless subjects and duplication of certain subjects to coerce them into transitive roles (see '''[[#Bi-Transitive Verbs|Bi-Transitive Verbs]]'''), but not enough to be able to consider it an ergative-absolutive language. | ||
====Noun Phrases==== | ====Noun Phrases==== | ||