In linguistic typology, ergative–absolutive alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the subject of an intransitive verb behaves like...

language. This is in contrast with nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive alignment languages, in which the argument of an intransitive verb patterns...

overlapping alignment systems, which exhibit both nominative–accusative and ergative–absolutive coding, a phenomenon called split ergativity. In fact, there...

(nominative–accusative and ergative–absolutive). Also, active languages are few and often show complications and special cases ("pure" active alignment is an ideal)...

of "Jane" is identical. In both cases, "Jane" is the subject. In ergative–absolutive languages (such as Basque and Georgian, or the Eskaleut and Mayan...

accusative cases. Basque is an ergative–absolutive system (or simply ergative). The name stemmed from the ergative and absolutive cases. S is said to align...

nominative–accusative languages such as English. In languages with ergative–absolutive alignment, the absolutive is the case used to mark both the subject of an intransitive...

the ergative case (abbreviated erg) is the grammatical case that identifies a nominal phrase as the agent of a transitive verb in ergative–absolutive languages...

region. Typologically, with its agglutinative morphology and ergative–absolutive alignment, Basque grammar remains markedly different from that of Standard...

as absolutive–verb–ergative (AVE) (see also syntactic ergativity). At least three of those languages (Makushi, Arekuna, and Päri) mark absolutive agreement...

Object (grammar) Dative case Ditransitive verb Ergative–absolutive alignment Morphosyntactic alignment Blansitt, E.L. Jr. (1984). "Dechticaetiative and...

nominative–absolutive clauses also have clauses which show other alignment patterns such as nominative-accusative and/or ergative-absolutive). The languages...

cases. Proto-Afroasiatic may have had marked nominative or ergative-absolutive alignment. A deverbal derivational prefix *mV- is also widely reconstructed...

citation form of the noun. The unmarked accusative (sometimes called absolutive) is typically also used with a wide range of other functions that are...

being loanwords from Georgian. Batsbi is an SOV language with ergative-absolutive alignment which makes extensive use of bound morphological derivation...

Aboriginal languages, is a highly agglutinative language with ergative-absolutive alignment, whose grammar is pervaded by a set of 16 noun classes whose...

to Payne, it's clear what happened here: Rushani once had a split-ergative alignment, as is common in the area, where the object was marked (oblique) in...

the children" is possible in such cases. In languages with ergative–absolutive alignment, the passive voice (where the object of a transitive verb becomes...

polysynthetic, agglutinative, direct-inverse language and has ergative–absolutive alignment. It also has very pervasive incorporation. In particular, the...

polysynthetic language with a high degree of agglutination that had an ergative-absolutive alignment. Ubykh nouns do not mark plurality and the only case that displays...

nominative–accusative alignment), and, in the past tense, the direct for S and O and the oblique for A (an absolutive–ergative alignment). Because of this...

case). In ergative–absolutive languages, the syntactic pivot may be the argument marked with the absolutive case but not always so since ergative languages...

schemas in linguistic convergence: From nominative-accusative to ergative-absolutive alignment in Nagamese -ResearchGate". researchgate.net. April 7, 2024...

order and utilizes postpositions.  It is tonal and exhibits ergative-absolutive alignment.  Despite being the fifth most spoken language in Nepal,  Tamang...

predominantly ergative alignment: case marking follows the ergative pattern for the most part, but verb agreement can follow an ergative or an accusative...

another vowel. The syntax of Kanamarí is characterized by ergative–absolutive alignment. The absolutive argument (i.e. the subject of intransitive verbs and...

typologically uncommon property of an ergative–absolutive alignment in the non-perfective aspects and a nominative–accusative alignment in perfective aspect. Panare...

vary cross-linguistically. Ergative case It has been suggested that the lexical case associated with agents is the ergative (ERG) lexical case: it identifies...

a basic agent–object–verb typology, and is characterized by ergative–absolutive alignment. The following texts are excerpts from the official translations...

morphology. It has ergative–absolutive alignment in its case marking; the subject of a transitive verb is overtly marked with ergative case, and the subject...