ERGATIVE

Etymology

Adjective

ergative (not comparable)

(grammar) Used of various situations where the subjects of transitive constructions have different grammatical cases or thematic relations to those of intransitive constructions.

Noun

ergative (plural ergatives)

(linguistics) The ergative case.

(linguistics) An ergative verb or other expression.

Source: Wiktionary



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