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== Grammar == | == Grammar == | ||
Proto-Irenesian had a system of symmetrical voice ("Austronesian alignment") with three cases: | Proto-Irenesian had a system of symmetrical voice ("Austronesian alignment") with three cases: | ||
# direct case: marking the syntactic subject. The verb's voice may promote the direct object to the syntactic subject, or it may promote the indirect object. | |||
# indirect case: marking the most significant argument that is not the subject (the non-subject agent or the non-subject patient). | |||
# genitive case | |||
VSO and head-initial but with some tendency to be topic-prominent (unlike Goidelic). Here S is the syntactic subject marked with the direct case. | VSO and head-initial but with some tendency to be topic-prominent (unlike Goidelic). Here S is the syntactic subject marked with the direct case. | ||
Many daughter languages are SVO and head-initial-ish. Kawenic which has a Uralic-style case system is an exception. | Many daughter languages are SVO and head-initial-ish. Kawenic which has a Uralic-style case system is an exception. | ||