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The term ergative is used in grammar in three different meanings:
Ergative case, the grammatical case of the subject of a transitive verb in an ergative-absolutive language
Ergative–absolutive language, a language in which the subject of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb
Ergative verb, a verb whose subject when intransitive corresponds to its direct object when transitive
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Look up ergative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term ergative is used in grammar in three different meanings: Ergative case, the grammatical...
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Erg Chigaga (or Erg Chegaga, Berber: ⴻⵔⴳ ⵛⴳⵉⴳⴰ, Arabic: عرق شقاق or Edaya el-Hamra, Arabic: الضاية الحمراء) is the largest and still untouched of the...
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and accusative cases. Basque is an ergative–absolutive system (or simply ergative). The name stemmed from the ergative and absolutive cases. S is said to...
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transitive (in ergative languages). Thus, whereas in English, "she" in "she runs" patterns with "she" in "she finds it", and an ergative language would...
added to the Ergative): marks the object of some verbs to mean 'by', 'to', 'with'. Adelative case (ending -вай [-vaj]; added to the Ergative): expresses...
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grammar, the absolutive case (abbreviated ABS) is the case of nouns in ergative–absolutive languages that would generally be the subjects of intransitive...
The Erg Chech (Arabic: عرق شاش), is a large erg in southwestern Algeria and northern Mali. It is an almost uninhabited part of the greater Sahara Desert...
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