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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Alignment=== | ===Alignment=== | ||
Knrawi has nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment. In some regions relative clauses have ergative-absolutive morphosyntactic alignment, | Knrawi has nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment. In some regions relative clauses have ergative-absolutive morphosyntactic alignment, and in some others some verbs (generally passive or non-volitive verbs, but varying within these regions) always have ergative-absolutive morphosyntactic alignment; for both of these accusative and locative marking act as absolutive and ergative marking respectively, with true locatives being disambiguated by adpositions. | ||
===First and third person=== | ===First and third person=== | ||