Associations to the word «Ergative»
Noun
- Verb
- Pronoun
- Suffix
- Marking
- Noun
- Alignment
- Prefix
- Instrumental
- Morphology
- Marker
- Plural
- Clause
- Subject
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- Language
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- Ne
- Sentence
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- Agent
- Philippine
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- Person
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- Mayan
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- Theta
- Inflection
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- Dual
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- Active
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- Sg
- Abs
- Np
- Or
- Ri
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- Adjective
- Inuit
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Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
ERGATIVE, adjective. (grammar) Used of various situations where the subject of transitive constructions have different grammatical cases or thematic relations to those of intransitive constructions.
ERGATIVE, noun. (linguistics) The ergative case.
ERGATIVE, noun. (linguistics) An ergative verb or other expression.
ERGATIVE CASE, noun. (grammar) A grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative languages.
ERGATIVE CASES, noun. Plural of ergative case
ERGATIVE VERB, noun. (linguistics) An ambitransitive verb where the patient is the object of the transitive, but becomes the experiencer of the intransitive use.
ERGATIVE VERBS, noun. Plural of ergative verb
Wise words
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