typology, marked nominative alignment is an unusual type of morphosyntactic alignment similar to, and often considered a subtype of, a nominative–accusative...

In linguistic typology, nominative–accusative alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which subjects of intransitive verbs are treated like...

those to the latter. The ergative-absolutive alignment is in contrast to nominative–accusative alignment, which is observed in English and most other...

accusative alignment. An uncommon subtype is called marked nominative. In such languages, the subject of a verb is marked for nominative case, but the...

language Labile verb Morphosyntactic alignment Nominative-absolutive language (Marked nominative alignment) Nominative-accusative language Unaccusative verb...

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

reference form (more technically, the least marked) of certain parts of speech is normally in the nominative case, but that is often not a complete specification...

is not marked. In the present tense, the object of the transitive verb is marked, the other two roles are not – that is, a typical nominative–accusative...

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

languages are characterized by marked nominative alignment. Nouns distinguish a nominative and accusative case, but the nominative is only used to mark the...

For example, the pronoun she, as the subject of a clause, is in the nominative case ("She wrote a book"); but if the pronoun is instead the object of...

In linguistic typology, nominative–absolutive alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the sole argument of an intransitive verb shares...

encountered cases include nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. A role that one of those languages marks by case is often marked in English with a preposition...

translational equivalents of nominative–accusative languages such as English. In languages with ergative–absolutive alignment, the absolutive is the case...

within the individual branches. Some languages in AA have a marked nominative alignment, a feature which may date back to Proto-Afroasiatic. Zygmont...

pattern, usually nominative–accusative. The conditions in which ergative constructions are used vary among different languages. Nominative–accusative languages...

characterized by marked nominative alignment, which is typologically quite rare and predominantly found in languages of Africa. In marked nominative languages...

and it opened nominative–accusative languages (including marked nominative languages) Nominative case (2) agent; voluntary experiencer he pushed the door...

descriptions of the language have instead described the case system as marked nominative (nominative–absolutive). Päri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Anderson, T...

agreement marks in the verb complex. Nominative–accusative alignment is one of the two major morphosyntactic alignments, along with ergative-absolutive. However...

morphosyntactic alignment of the language. In nominative–accusative languages, the syntactic pivot is the so-called "subject" (the argument marked with the nominative...

Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive...

Austronesian alignment or the Austronesian focus system, is a typologically unusual kind of morphosyntactic alignment in which "one argument can be marked as having...

sometimes (in a subset of words ending with a vocal in nominative) identical in form to nominative. In Finnish, in addition to the uses mentioned above...

the Latin word bonus ("good"). The ending -us denotes masculine gender, nominative case, and singular number. Changing any one of these features requires...

Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive Split ergative Symmetrical voice Active–stative Tripartite Nominative–absolutive...

case-alignment system is nominative-accusative. However, plural objects are also sometimes marked with the nominative. Objects in the nominative plural...

problematic claims. Another common classification distinguishes nominative–accusative alignment patterns and ergative–absolutive ones. In a language with cases...

languages (English, Spanish, etc.) the vocative case has been absorbed by the nominative, but others still distinguish it, including the Baltic languages, some...

obliquus) or objective case (abbr. OBJ) is a nominal case other than the nominative case and, sometimes, the vocative. A noun or pronoun in the oblique case...