Huge thanks to the other authors: Aitor Egurtzegi, @sebastiansauppe.bsky.social , Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Guilleme Martinez de la Hidalga, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Matthias Schlesewsky, @ilaka.bsky.social, Martin Meyer, & @balthasarbickel.bsky.social

Plus there are some bonus bits about the effects of argument-drop in processing!

Basque is an Active language, meaning that agents get a special case marker.  We show that it really is agency that matters to comprehenders, because they don't apply the typical Agent-first principle when the first noun phrase isn't agentive enough (in this case, when the first NP is inanimate).

If you're still adding to this, I'd love to be on it! It's certainly still circulating and helpful