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jaymbi / jaybar - 'in turn'. E.g. 'I hit him and he jaymbi hit me', 'He hit me and I jaybar hit him'.Dixon states that "pronouns inflect in a nominative-accusative paradigm... deictics with human reference have separate cases for transitive subject, transitive object, and intransitive subject... whereas nouns show an absolutive-ergative pattern." Thus three morphosyntactic alignments seem to occur: ergative-absolutive,

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