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Louisiana Creole French
Glottocode: loui1240
Genalogical classification: Indo-European
Original alignment pattern: Neuter
Source construction: Personal pronouns with undifferentiated forms for A, S and P roles.
Developmental mechanism: Personal pronouns for A/S roles underwent phonetic reduction, possibly due to they higher frequency, while P pronouns retained their original form.
Resulting construction: Distinct pronominal forms for A and S on the one hand and P on the other hand, as in (1).
Type of change: Phonological change
Alignment in the resulting construction: Nominative-Accusative
Global alignment pattern following the change: Nominative-Accusative
Constraints on the distribution of the resulting alignment: The resulting alignment pattern is restricted to personal pronouns.
Grammatical domains: Case marking
Symmetry: Asymmetric
Type of data: Internal reconstruction
References: Haspelmath and the APiCS Consortium 2013
Examples
(1) Louisiana Creole French (Indo-European; Haspelmath and the APiCS Consortium 2013)
| Person | A, S | P |
| 1SG/2SG | mo/to | mwa/twa |