Case and morphosyntactic alignment 101

[@kahwigulum]

When I look up linguistic topics, I find it very difficult to find relevant information about the topic itself, because most linguistic teachers teach from the point of view of a specific language, so more general linguistic topics are usually not discussed, and lesson content is flavored to the teacher's language preference rather than on a more generalized linguistic basis. This is understandable, but unfortunate that it places the onus on the student to infer information rather than just having it clearly and logically laid out. This video has been very helpful to help me grasp case, but I do have one gripe with it, and that is in how you have made this information available. I have spent a lot of time trying to find unbiased resources on linguistics in general, and am routinely disappointed that the information I want is almost never discussed, or at least not discussed as thoroughly as I liked, because it's too general, or not specific to the language preference of the teacher, or assumed to be so obvious by the teacher that the topic itself is beneath them to even cover (the teacher suffers from the curse of knowledge). My gripe is that the title of this video is not easily searchable by people like me who actively seek it out. I've done everything including using AI tools like Bard/Gemini, and even they fail miserably at providing the sort of information I search for. I've noticed that your channel doesn't have a lot of basic linguistic information, and instead caters to your conlang community, which is fine for those interested in conlangs, but is unfortunate for people like me who would prefer more educational, real-world linguistic content. If the goal is to bring linguistic information down from the ivory tower (which happens to also be the stated goal of another linguist I very much enjoy, Jackson Crawford, also on KZbin, he's also great), then why do you bury these valuable linguistic nuggets in streams dealing with conlangs, and not use tags and titles to your videos which would better serve potential students, and ultimately you by increasing your viewership? You're a very good teacher, I enjoy listening to you speak, and I've watched a few hours of your stuff searching for the three minute chunk of information on whatever the topic is that I'm interested in, hoping that it's in there somewhere, when I personally would have preferred to watch a specific video (like this one) on that topic and spent less time on it overall. Anyway, just some feedback from a new fan. I hope you find that helpful.

[@kahwigulum]

And if I may take up just a little more of your time, as an autodidact who loves going deep on any given topic, having the chat pop up in the corner is extremely distracting and draws my attention away from the learning. I love connecting with new ideas and despise things that become a barrier to that goal. If you were going to make more of these styles of videos (and I hope that you do), I would personally prefer that chat stay private and not pop up in the corners, at least for that portion of the stream.

[@the_linguist_ll]

I really appreciate all the information you put out there.

[@angelicaisaadaniya118]

the owl rules the world 🦉love it

[@lucichan]

Of course! Hehe

[@Mac_an_Mheiriceanaigh]

Very interesting. That last bit (unaccusative, unergative) was new to me.

[@Mac_an_Mheiriceanaigh]

"me and him are fighting" - is that something you would naturally say, Colin? is that Canadian English??

[@ColinGorrie]

I think that's most varieties of English, but it's not something I'd likely say very often.

[@jjbondurant]

Bravo.

[@TheSmallFrogs]

On "me and him are fighting", I'd analyse those pronoun forms as emphatic, not accusative/objective. French has a similar feature where the emphatic pronouns can take on both roles ("L'état c'est moi" vs "Donnez-moi la plume").

[@bendthebow]

The owls are not what they seem

[@majahadra7905]

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