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This poster, titled "Planning Ergativity: Cross-linguistic Implications of Morphological Variation," addresses how the sentence planning system handles the demands of ergative case in highly ergative languages like Shipibo-Konibo, a language of the Peruvian Amazon, and Hindi, a prominent Indo-Aryan language. The core finding is that in Shipibo, planning the "ergative" case on the agent of a transitive sentence relies on strategies more similar to those used in languages with nominative case systems than the strategies used in another ergative language (Hindi). We find that speakers of Shipibo plan ergative nouns independent of any other constituent in the sentence, despite the fact that the grammatical demands of ergative case would incentivize co-planning with another constituent that would support and guarantee transitivity. The poster presentation was held by Caroline Andrews and colleagues, including Roberto Zariquiey, Sebastian Sauppe, Margaux Dubuis, and Balthasar Bickel, at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2024.