| 11. | Another factor would be the previously mentioned loss of case marking and centralisation of vowels.
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| 12. | The noun heads have plurals, locatives, deictics, ergatives, reflexives and other generally word-final case markings.
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| 13. | It is also used somewhat productively in relation to proper place names, without any case marking.
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| 14. | Subject nouns take no overt case marking ( subject coreference is on the verb instead ).
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| 15. | The word order is case marking.
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| 16. | If there is no case marking, ergativity can be marked through other means, such as in verbal morphology.
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| 17. | Her other publications are on the typology of case marking, as well as the Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork.
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| 18. | In transitive phrases, the word order is mainly SVO, in which the ergative case marking system tends to be used.
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| 19. | A typical example is a language that has nominative accusative marking on verbs and ergative absolutive case marking on nouns.
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| 20. | In the first one, the wh-word remains " in situ " ( and retains any case marking it has ).
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