ergative-absolutive language
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
26
Letters
7
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
n
a type of language that has an ergative case or in which the direct object of a transitive verb has the same form as the subject of an intransitive verb.
Example Sentences
- "An ergative language maintains a syntactic or morphological equivalence (such as the same word order or grammatical case) for the object of a transitive verb and the single core argument of an intransitive verb, while treating the agent of a transitive verb differently."