it displays accusative alignment with certain pronouns. The ergative-absolutive alignment is in contrast to nominative–accusative alignment, which is observed... 46 KB (4,497 words) - 09:34, 21 April 2024 |
both or none of them.[further explanation needed] Nominative–accusative (or accusative) alignment treats the S argument of an intransitive verb like... 20 KB (2,334 words) - 00:15, 27 February 2024 |
nominative alignment is an unusual type of morphosyntactic alignment similar to, and often considered a subtype of, a nominative–accusative alignment... 6 KB (663 words) - 21:30, 25 December 2022 |
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... 16 KB (1,840 words) - 07:15, 29 March 2024 |
for O (a nominative–accusative alignment), and, in the past tense, the direct for S and O and the oblique for A (an absolutive–ergative alignment). Because... 3 KB (394 words) - 22:39, 29 January 2021 |
usually nominative–accusative. The conditions in which ergative constructions are used vary among different languages. Nominative–accusative languages... 13 KB (1,606 words) - 10:41, 2 March 2024 |
is marked, the other two roles are not – that is, a typical nominative–accusative alignment. Intransitive: no case marking az-um I(ABS)-1SG pa to Xaraɣ... 3 KB (450 words) - 23:45, 20 September 2023 |
languages which have nominative–absolutive clauses also have clauses which show other alignment patterns such as nominative-accusative and/or ergative-absolutive)... 9 KB (1,062 words) - 03:05, 25 January 2022 |
system of a language. This is in contrast with nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive alignment languages, in which the argument of an intransitive... 11 KB (1,235 words) - 22:19, 1 June 2023 |
verb. Subject pronouns are usually in the nominative case for languages with a nominative–accusative alignment pattern. On the other hand, a language with... 2 KB (274 words) - 01:14, 1 August 2023 |
Linguistic typology (section Morphosyntactic alignment) problematic claims. Another common classification distinguishes nominative–accusative alignment patterns and ergative–absolutive ones. In a language with cases... 31 KB (3,543 words) - 15:00, 22 April 2024 |
(nominative–accusative and ergative–absolutive). Also, active languages are few and often show complications and special cases ("pure" active alignment is an... 21 KB (2,472 words) - 06:09, 30 April 2024 |
translational equivalents of nominative–accusative languages such as English. In languages with ergative–absolutive alignment, the absolutive is the case... 3 KB (372 words) - 06:20, 8 February 2024 |
to be used for the nominative as well. The term "nominative case" is most properly used in the discussion of nominative–accusative languages, such as... 7 KB (805 words) - 16:22, 25 April 2024 |
Grammatical case (section Morphosyntactic alignment) the nominative pronouns I/they represent the perceiver and the accusative pronouns me/them represent the phenomenon perceived. Here, nominative and accusative... 72 KB (6,640 words) - 07:50, 8 April 2024 |
depending on which case alignment is the characteristic one for the language in question. For nominative–accusative alignment, the structural cases are... 3 KB (420 words) - 11:46, 12 December 2017 |
property of an ergative–absolutive alignment in the non-perfective aspects and a nominative–accusative alignment in perfective aspect. Panare is a member... 11 KB (1,215 words) - 00:06, 20 March 2024 |
*šimmā ’if’. The Proto-Semitic language was a language of nominative-accusative alignment, which is preserved in most of its descendant languages. The... 60 KB (6,269 words) - 10:29, 24 April 2024 |
Proto-Afroasiatic language (section Case alignment) Helmut (2018). "Did Proto-Afroasiatic have Marked Nominative or Nominative-Accusative Alignment?". In Tosco, Mauro (ed.). Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives... 82 KB (9,901 words) - 20:48, 21 March 2024 |
language has an SOV[clarification needed] constituent order and nominative–accusative alignment. Both subjects and objects are marked suffixally on the verb... 5 KB (397 words) - 13:25, 30 September 2023 |
Georgian grammar (section Morphosyntactic alignment) agreement marks in the verb complex. Nominative–accusative alignment is one of the two major morphosyntactic alignments, along with ergative-absolutive. However... 44 KB (5,005 words) - 16:26, 31 January 2024 |
generally follows a subject–verb–object word order, has a nominative-accusative alignment, and is considered a fusional or inflected language. Two Israeli... 100 KB (8,944 words) - 16:27, 1 May 2024 |
past and perfective contexts, and nominative-accusative alignment otherwise. Syntactically it is nominative-accusative. Among all Western Iranian languages... 41 KB (3,463 words) - 06:52, 4 May 2024 |
Oblique case (redirect from Dative/Accusative) 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... 10 KB (977 words) - 11:52, 22 April 2024 |
Even can function as adjectives and adverbs. Even features a nominative-accusative alignment with subject-object-verb word order. There exists an obligatory... 10 KB (645 words) - 12:15, 1 May 2024 |
Kayapo language (section Accusative case) Prototypically, finite matrix clauses in Mẽbêngôkre have a nominative–accusative alignment pattern, whereby the agents of transitive verbs (A) and the... 41 KB (3,265 words) - 05:59, 26 March 2024 |
bonum, the ending -um denotes masculine accusative singular, neuter accusative singular, or neuter nominative singular. Many Indo-European languages feature... 10 KB (1,092 words) - 16:19, 21 April 2024 |
Latin neuter nouns, the nominative, vocative, and accusative cases are identical, and the nominative, vocative, and accusative plurals all end in -a. (Both... 89 KB (5,168 words) - 21:02, 11 April 2024 |