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Ergative case
Grammatical cases |
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List of grammatical cases |
Abessive case |
Ablative case |
Absolutive case |
Adessive case |
Allative case |
Causal case |
Causal-final case |
Comitative case |
Dative case |
Dedative case |
Delative case |
Disjunctive case |
Distributive case |
Distributive-temporal case |
Elative case |
Essive case |
Essive-formal case |
Essive-modal case |
Excessive case |
Final case |
Formal case |
Genitive case |
Illative case |
Inessive case |
Instructive case |
Instrumental case |
Lative case |
Locative case |
Modal case |
Multiplicative case |
Oblique case |
Objective case |
Partitive case |
Possessive case |
Postpositional case |
Prepositional case |
Prolative case |
Prosecutive case |
Separative case |
Sociative case |
Sublative case |
Superessive case |
Temporal case |
Terminative case |
Translative case |
Vialis case |
Vocative case |
Morphosyntactic alignment |
Absolutive case |
Accusative case |
Ergative case |
Instrumental case |
Instrumental-comitative case |
Intransitive case |
Nominative case |
Declension |
Declension in English |
In ergative-absolutive languages, the ergative case identifies the subject of a transitive verb. In such languages, the ergative case is typically marked (most salient), while the absolutive case is unmarked.
Certain Australian languages possess an intransitive case and an accusative case along with an ergative case, and lack an absolutive case.
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Last updated: 03-02-2005 13:16:20