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    In linguistic typology, nominativeaccusative alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which subjects of intransitive verbs are treated like...
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  • it displays accusative alignment with certain pronouns. The ergative-absolutive alignment is in contrast to nominativeaccusative alignment, which is observed...
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  • both or none of them.[further explanation needed] Nominativeaccusative (or accusative) alignment treats the S argument of an intransitive verb like...
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  • nominative alignment is an unusual type of morphosyntactic alignment similar to, and often considered a subtype of, a nominativeaccusative alignment...
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  • clause, is in the nominative case ("She wrote a book"); but if the pronoun is instead the object of the verb, it is in the accusative case and she becomes...
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  • for O (a nominativeaccusative alignment), and, in the past tense, the direct for S and O and the oblique for A (an absolutive–ergative alignment). Because...
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  • usually nominativeaccusative. The conditions in which ergative constructions are used vary among different languages. Nominativeaccusative languages...
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  • is marked, the other two roles are not – that is, a typical nominativeaccusative alignment. Intransitive: no case marking az-um I(ABS)-1SG pa to Xaraɣ...
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  • languages which have nominative–absolutive clauses also have clauses which show other alignment patterns such as nominative-accusative and/or ergative-absolutive)...
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  • system of a language. This is in contrast with nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive alignment languages, in which the argument of an intransitive...
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  • verb. Subject pronouns are usually in the nominative case for languages with a nominativeaccusative alignment pattern. On the other hand, a language with...
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  • problematic claims. Another common classification distinguishes nominativeaccusative alignment patterns and ergative–absolutive ones. In a language with cases...
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  • (nominative–accusative and ergative–absolutive). Also, active languages are few and often show complications and special cases ("pure" active alignment is an...
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  • translational equivalents of nominativeaccusative languages such as English. In languages with ergative–absolutive alignment, the absolutive is the case...
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  • to be used for the nominative as well. The term "nominative case" is most properly used in the discussion of nominativeaccusative languages, such as...
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  • the nominative pronouns I/they represent the perceiver and the accusative pronouns me/them represent the phenomenon perceived. Here, nominative and accusative...
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  • depending on which case alignment is the characteristic one for the language in question. For nominativeaccusative alignment, the structural cases are...
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  • property of an ergative–absolutive alignment in the non-perfective aspects and a nominativeaccusative alignment in perfective aspect. Panare is a member...
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  • *šimmā ’if’. The Proto-Semitic language was a language of nominative-accusative alignment, which is preserved in most of its descendant languages. The...
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  • Helmut (2018). "Did Proto-Afroasiatic have Marked Nominative or Nominative-Accusative Alignment?". In Tosco, Mauro (ed.). Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives...
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  • language has an SOV[clarification needed] constituent order and nominativeaccusative alignment. Both subjects and objects are marked suffixally on the verb...
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  • agreement marks in the verb complex. Nominativeaccusative alignment is one of the two major morphosyntactic alignments, along with ergative-absolutive. However...
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    generally follows a subject–verb–object word order, has a nominative-accusative alignment, and is considered a fusional or inflected language. Two Israeli...
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    other two roles are not – that is, a typical nominativeaccusative alignment. See transitive alignment for examples. Zarubin, I.I. Bartangskie i rushanskie...
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    past and perfective contexts, and nominative-accusative alignment otherwise. Syntactically it is nominative-accusative. Among all Western Iranian languages...
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  • 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...
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  • Even can function as adjectives and adverbs. Even features a nominative-accusative alignment with subject-object-verb word order. There exists an obligatory...
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  • Prototypically, finite matrix clauses in Mẽbêngôkre have a nominativeaccusative alignment pattern, whereby the agents of transitive verbs (A) and the...
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  • bonum, the ending -um denotes masculine accusative singular, neuter accusative singular, or neuter nominative singular. Many Indo-European languages feature...
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  • Latin neuter nouns, the nominative, vocative, and accusative cases are identical, and the nominative, vocative, and accusative plurals all end in -a. (Both...
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