Split Ergativity in Malvani/Dalḍi
hey all,
I'm quite interested in Konkani linguistics, and quite interested as well in the boundary languages that sit clearly in the Marathi-Konkani Language Family but diverge between Standard Marathi and Antruzi Konkani.
Of these I am interested in Malvani/Dalḍi, which as I understand are two closely related varieties, and how the past tense is conjugated.
Antruzi (and plenty of other Konkani varieties), constructs the perfect (to show an action has been completed) from the imperfect (to show an action is not completed).
take for example these sentences showing the past imperfect vs the past imperfect:
hãv keḷẽ khatalõ 'I was eating the banana' vs. havẽ keḷẽ khalẽ 'I ate the banana'.
as you can see in the second sentence follows an Ergative alignment, wherein the verb agrees with the object. (note that this only happens with transitive verbs (verbs that take a subject and an object, there are exceptions however)).
is this feature there in Dalḍi or Malvani? Would also be interested to know about Pednekari with regards to this.