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alignment system (str)
a.k.a. alignment (strategy)
a system defined by the co-expression of arguments of predicates in intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive constructions. Example: English expresses the one argument of an intransitive verb construction (The cats slept) in the same way as the semantically agentive argument of a transitive verb (The cats clawed the sofa): both arguments are expressed preceding the verb. (Sections 1.4, 6.3.1)
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