English Explanatory Dictionary

ergative-absolutive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Being or relating to a language where the single argument (subject) of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent of a transitive verb.

Word forms

ergative-absolutive
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