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-====== Nominative-Accusative alignment ======
-In languages with **//Nominative-Accusative//** morphosyntactic alignment the [[syntax_subject|subject]] is distinguished from [[syntax_object|object]] in any sentence despite the transitivity of predicate's [[grammar_verb|verb]]. This distinction may be expressed by [[morphology]] and/or [[syntax]]. Majority of Indo-European languages are Nominative-Accusative. Standard [[Nûrlâm]] is also Nominative language, while it's archaic version is [[syntax_ergative|Ergative]].
-While in //Ergative// languages the terms //Agent// and //Patient// are more convenient for description of verb's arguments, in Nominative-Accusative languages both agent and patient may become either subject or object of predicate depending on [[grammar_voice|grammatical voice]].
-The typical word order in standard Nûrlâm is Subject–Verb–Object (SVO). Indirect objects are placed after direct objects. Nouns in locative or marginal case are not objects but usually an [[syntax_adverbials|adverbials]], so they don't follow this word order.

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