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Ergative–absolutive alignment

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 vs. accusative languages

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Distribution of ergative languages

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Ergative–absolutive alignment

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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

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

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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

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