Conlangery #96: Where did my Nominative go?

George and William have a discussion of those times when the subject isn’t in the case you might expect it to be in.

Links and Resources:

• Wikipedia on Quirky Subject
• Subject cases in Sadani
• Oblique subjects in Slavic (handout/ PowerPoint)
• Warlpiri
• Comparative study with lots of examples from many languages
• Non-nominative subject in Oriya
• Okuna
• Another big comparative study
• Locative inversion in Otjiherero (Bantu)