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  • In grammar, the absolutive case (abbreviated ABS) is the case of nouns in ergative–absolutive languages that would generally be the subjects of intransitive...
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  • ergative case, but they have a verbal agreement structure that is ergative. In languages with ergative–absolutive agreement systems, the absolutive form is...
    47 KB (4,505 words) - 02:01, 12 June 2024
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    ergative case (abbreviated erg) is the grammatical case that identifies a nominal phrase as the agent of a transitive verb in ergative–absolutive languages...
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  • without a nominative case, such as ergative–absolutive languages; in the Northwest Caucasian languages, for example, the oblique-case marker serves to mark...
    10 KB (977 words) - 11:52, 22 April 2024
  • called absolutive, a word used for an unmarked citation-form argument in various case systems. Transitive case Nominative case Absolutive case v t e...
    1 KB (117 words) - 19:40, 3 May 2023
  • nominative case and absolutive case.) A direct case is found in several Indo-Iranian languages, there it may contrast with an oblique case that marks some...
    3 KB (394 words) - 22:39, 29 January 2021
  • this case is then called the nominative case, with the patient (direct object) of a transitive verb being in the accusative case. Ergative–absolutive (or...
    72 KB (6,638 words) - 11:11, 25 May 2024
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    is an ergative–absolutive language. The subject of an intransitive verb is in the absolutive case (which is unmarked), and the same case is used for the...
    105 KB (11,392 words) - 21:03, 12 June 2024
  • grammatical role of "Jane" is identical. In both cases, "Jane" is the subject. In ergative–absolutive languages (such as Basque and Georgian, or the Eskaleut...
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  • four different noun cases, each with corresponding suffixes: absolutive, ergative, instrumental, and adverbial. The absolutive case of a definite noun...
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    on the absolutive case. This case is likewise used to mark the basic form of a noun. Therefore, all the singular, dual, and plural absolutive forms serve...
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  • additional noun case suffix (absolutive, ergative, etc.) For example: дахэ /daːxa/ - pretty → дахэр /daːxar/ - the pretty person (absolutive case). ашӏу /aːʃʷʼə/...
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  • different forms for the absolutive case: ištidə as the absolutive subject of an intransitive verb, and šukə as the absolutive object of a transitive verb...
    45 KB (5,759 words) - 22:59, 3 June 2024
  • seven noun cases: absolutive relative (ergative-genitive) ablative-modalis localis terminalis vialis aequalis As in other ergative-absolutive languages...
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  • list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used, an...
    32 KB (269 words) - 18:23, 23 June 2024
  • which promotes the original ergative to absolutive and puts the former absolutive (the woman) into dative case has to be used: baji M-ABS jaɽa man-ABS...
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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...
    20 KB (2,334 words) - 00:15, 27 February 2024
  • the nominative case for languages with a nominative–accusative alignment pattern. On the other hand, a language with an ergative-absolutive pattern usually...
    2 KB (274 words) - 22:39, 6 May 2024
  • typologically an ergative–absolutive language. Nouns are generally unmarked for grammatical number, but are marked for case. Adjectives are never marked...
    29 KB (3,483 words) - 20:14, 2 April 2024
  • accusative or absolutive patients in finite clauses, depending on the verb class. In nonfinite clauses, all transitive verbs take absolutive patients. Note...
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