Hngatil grammar: Difference between revisions

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 === Verbal noun morphology ===
-== Syntax ==
+== Syntax and morphosyntactical alignment ==
-Hngatil is one of the few languages cross-linguistically speaking with a ''direct-inverse'' morphosyntactic alignment.
+Hngatil is one of the few languages cross-linguistically speaking with a ''direct-inverse'' morphosyntactic alignment. In a transitive sentence, the marked inverse case is used when the object outranks the subject on the person hierarchy, and the unmarked direct case is used when the subject outranks the object on the person hierarchy. The person hierarchy for Hngatil is:
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Hngatil person hierarchy
+!First person
+singular and plural
+!Second person
+singular and plural
+''inclusive''
+!Second person
+singular and plural
+''exclusive''
+!Third person
+singular and plural
+''<u>proximal</u>'' and '''''<u>proximate</u>'''''
+!Third person
+singular and plural
+''<u>distal</u>'' and ''<u>obviate</u>''
+!Indefinite first/second/third person
+singular and plural
+!First/second/third person
+reflexive
+!Inanimate
+|}
 === Word order ===