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Ergative

Adjective

Definitions

1.AdjectiveWith the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of an intransitive construction.
"The case systems of ergative languages are counter-intuitive to speakers of many Indo-European languages."
2.NounEllipsis of ergative case (“a grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages”).
3.NounAn ergative verb or other expression.
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