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 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.
+# direct case: 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).
+# indirect case: the most significant argument that is not the subject (the non-subject agent or the non-subject patient).
-# genitive case: As in Arabic, the genitive case is used for both possessors and prepositional complements.
+# genitive case: possessors and prepositional complements.
 Proto-Irenesian syntax is 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.