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 ===Syntactic pivots===
-Syntactic pivoting arises in a natural way from the split-ergative morphosyntax: for example, if clause A is in an ''accusative tense'' (present, imperfect, or future, in any mood), a following clause B in an ''ergative tense'' (preterite in any mood) may take the subject of clause A as its own "subject" (patient) argument without explicitly stating it.
+Syntactic pivoting (the practice of omitting a subject entirely in a clause if the previous clause has it as a subject, e.g. ''He took my gift and went'') is disallowed: a pronoun can be used as a subject in the following clause if the previous clause has its antecedent as its subject.
-Or should pivoting be disallowed as in Irish?
 [[Category:Tíogall]]