Ergative–absolutive alignment
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title:
Ergative–absolutive alignment
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In linguistic typology, ergative–absolutive alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the single argument ("subject") of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent ("subject") of a transitive verb. Examples include Basque, Georgian, Mayan, Tibetan, and certain Indo-European languages. It has also been attributed to the Semitic modern Aramaic languages. Ergative languages are classified into two groups: those that are morpholo
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Pattern relating to the subject and object of verbs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergative%E2%80%93absolutive_alignment
date created:
2004-04-18T22:05:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T15:07:45Z
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