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Morphosyntactic alignment

In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the grammatical relationship between arguments—specifically, between the two arguments (in English, subject and object) of transitive verbs like the dog chased the cat, and the single argument of intransitive verbs like the cat ran away. English has a subject, which merges the more active argument of transitive…

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Types of alignment

Nominative–accusativeOblique caseDativeInstrumentalPassive voice
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AgentPatientGrammatical relationsEnglish languageNominative
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LinguisticsArgumentsTransitive verbsIntransitive verbsSubject
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Comparison between ergative–absolutive and nominative–accusative

Japanese
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Types of alignment

Comparison between ergative–absolutive and nominative–accusative

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Morphosyntactic alignment

Nodes74
Edges73
Triples1
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027027
Components1

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Morphosyntactic alignment → grammatical relationship between arguments

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Important terminology

alignment ergative accusative languages transitive case subject nominative intransitive like argument absolutive object may agent voice arguments language called ergativity

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Morphosyntactic alignmentis agrammatical relationship between arguments0.90text

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