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June 28th, 2017 at 8:04 pm
Greenlandic agreement (and all of Inuit) follows an ergative-absolutive pattern; there’s a transitive paradigm that coindexes both ERG and ABS arguments and an intransitive paradigm that indexes only the ABS argument. In other words, ergative subjects trigger a different agreement pattern.