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Research question: Why Place and Goal marking in Dargwa, EC, is mirror-opposite to what can be expected based on the rest of the family (where place is unmarked, goal is marked)? Suggested answer: It is not, but only appears to be. Reasoning: In EC, the marking on forms of static location is a way to support syntactic coherence by means of agreement and not to express a spatial meaning. Dargwa patterns with the EC bipartite systems, static location (Place) and direction (Goal) are equally unmarked. Circumstantial evidence: as a bonus, this also makes change of posture and position verbs in Dargwa look like in other languages of the family.