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Ergative–absolutive alignment: Distribution of ergative languages, Realization of ergativity & Overview

In linguistic typology, ergative–absolutive alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the subject of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent of a transitive verb. In ergative–absolutive languages with grammatical case, the ergative case refers to the marking of agents of transitive…

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Ergative–absolutive alignment topic overview

The analysis highlights Distribution of ergative languages, Realization of ergativity and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Ergative–absolutive alignment.

Related topics
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Source areas
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Connected nodes
164
Extracted relationships
8
Concept neighborhoods
61
Bridge connections
164

What this topic covers Research coverage

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Distribution of ergative languages · 77 topics
Overview · 49 topics
Realization of ergativity · 16 topics
Ergative vs. accusative languages · 6 topics
Approximations of ergativity in English · 2 topics
Emergence of Ergativity · 1 topics
Example comparing Latin and Dyirbal · 1 topics

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Overview

Ergative vs. accusative languages

Example comparing Latin and Dyirbal

Realization of ergativity

Distribution of ergative languages

Approximations of ergativity in English

Emergence of Ergativity

Bibliography

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Ergative–absolutive alignment connects Entity context

The extracted context around Ergative–absolutive alignment shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Ergative–absolutive alignment → type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the subject of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Ergative–absolutive alignment

Top relations

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Ergative–absolutive alignment → type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the subject of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb

Important terminology

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Important terminology

ergative ergativity languages transitive case subject intransitive verb absolutive object accusative language alignment marked saw father grammatical english marking dyirbal

Ergative–absolutive alignment relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 8 structured relationships around Ergative–absolutive alignment. Examples in this analysis include Ergative–absolutive alignment → is a → type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the subject of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb and Pashto → instance of → and certain Indo-European languages. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Ergative–absolutive alignmentis atype of morphosyntactic alignment in which the subject of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb0.90text
Pashtoinstance ofand certain Indo-European languages0.80text
the Kurdish languagesinstance ofand certain Indo-European languages0.80text
many othersinstance ofand certain Indo-European languages0.80text
Englishinstance ofaccusative languages0.80text
where the single argument of an intransitive verbinstance ofaccusative languages0.80text
the agent of a transitive verbinstance ofaccusative languages0.80text
oblique.The core argument of an intransitive verbinstance ofor as a similar case0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Ergative–absolutive alignment bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Languages, Ergative and Case. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Ergative–absolutive alignment
    • Languages
    • Ergative
    • Case
    • Transitive
    • Verb
    • Intransitive
    • Also
    • Alignment
    • Accusative
    • Subject
    • Verbs
    • Marking
  • ergative–absolutive alignment
    • Languages
    • Ergative
    • Verb
    • Agent
    • Intransitive
    • Case
    • Also
    • Transitive
    • Accusative
    • Argument
    • Word
    • Object
  • morphosyntactic alignment
    • Agent
    • Ergative
    • Also
    • Accusative
    • Verb
    • Nominative
    • Languages
    • Object
    • Argument
    • Like
    • Intransitive
    • Transitive
  • intransitive verbs
    • Transitive
    • Verb
    • Subject
    • Object
    • Case
    • Verbs
    • Argument
    • English
    • Accusative
    • Also
    • Nominative
    • Like
  • transitive
    • Verb
    • Case
    • Marked
    • Verbs
    • Argument
    • Subjects
    • English
    • Marking
    • Accusative
    • Also
    • Nominative
    • Languages
  • grammatical case
    • Transitive
    • Marking
    • Marked
    • Intransitive
    • Verb
    • Ergative
    • Verbs
    • Morphological
    • Object
    • Split
    • Languages
    • Subjects
  • ergative case
    • Languages
    • Transitive
    • Marking
    • Marked
    • Intransitive
    • Verb
    • Case
    • Ergative
    • Also
    • Accusative
    • Verbs
    • Subject
  • absolutive case
    • Transitive
    • Ergative
    • Marking
    • Marked
    • Intransitive
    • Verb
    • Case
    • Argument
    • Word
    • Object
    • Accusative
    • Alignment

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Ergative–absolutive alignment, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Ergative–absolutive alignment with Distribution of ergative languages. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

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Ergative–absolutive alignmentDistribution of ergative languages · splits 87 ⟂ 78
Ergative–absolutive alignmentOverview · splits 115 ⟂ 50
Ergative–absolutive alignmentRealization of ergativity · splits 148 ⟂ 17
Ergative–absolutive alignmentErgative vs. accusative languages · splits 158 ⟂ 7
Ergative–absolutive alignmentBibliography · splits 160 ⟂ 5
Ergative–absolutive alignmentApproximations of ergativity in English · splits 162 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Ergative–absolutive alignment

Nodes165
Edges164
Triples8
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012121
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Ergative–absolutive alignment to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Distribution of ergative languages, Realization of ergativity & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Ergative–absolutive alignment · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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