Innu-aimun is an Algonquian language, mostly spoken in Quebec. This language family is famous for its « direct-inverse » system, a syntactic device that can be described in terms of voice and alignment according to the respective properties of the referents that embody the semantic roles of a bivalent predicate. Because the basic function of an applicative is specifically to add a semantic role to the valency of a predicate (progressive diathesis, in Tesnière's terminology), such an operation may have morphosyntactic repercussions in these languages. This article introduces some relevant characteristics of the Innu language and presents the various applicatives found in Innu-aimun. It discusses how and why only some of them interact with alignment issues. As a conclusion, we support that Innuaimun data provide some insights for the construction of a typological concept such as "applicative".