11. Another factor would be the previously mentioned loss of case marking and centralisation of vowels. 12. The noun heads have plurals, locatives, deictics, ergatives, reflexives and other generally word-final case markings . 13. It is also used somewhat productively in relation to proper place names, without any case marking . 14. Subject nouns take no overt case marking ( subject coreference is on the verb instead ). 15. The word order is case marking . 16. If there is no case marking , ergativity can be marked through other means, such as in verbal morphology. 17. Her other publications are on the typology of case marking , as well as the Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork. 18. In transitive phrases, the word order is mainly SVO, in which the ergative case marking system tends to be used. 19. A typical example is a language that has nominative accusative marking on verbs and ergative absolutive case marking on nouns. 20. In the first one, the wh-word remains " in situ " ( and retains any case marking it has ).