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The Typology of Semantic Alignment
6 Losing semantic alignment: from Proto‐Yeniseic to Modern Ket
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Abstract
Proto-Yeniseic possessed a type of semantic alignment whereby subject and object NPs were zero marked and most undergoer subjects generated verb-internal agreement. Modern Ket exhibits a more complex system of verb-internal subject-object marking involving several different patterns which defy simple semantic classification. This chapter traces this phenomenon diachronically.