Tripartite alignment
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tripartite-alignment-164-7004684
title:
Tripartite alignment
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In linguistic typology, tripartite alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the main argument ('subject') of an intransitive verb, the agent argument ('subject') of a transitive verb, and the patient argument of a transitive verb are each treated distinctly in the grammatical system of a language. This is in contrast with nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive alignment languages, in which the argument of an intransitive verb patterns with either the agent argument of the
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Type of morphosyntactic alignment in linguistic typology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_alignment
date created:
2004-11-21T02:16:20Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T22:17:19Z
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