adoption from Spanish vaso); basóàk ("the forest", ergative case) vs. básoàk ("the glass", ergative case) vs. básoak ("the forests" or "the glasses", absolutive...

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...

inflected for ergative and absolutive cases. Thus the morphemes in j-le-bel-at ("for me to look for you") correspond to (first-person ergative marker)-"look...

often been said to exhibit split ergativity; morphologically speaking, it is said that it mostly behaves like an ergative–absolutive language in the Series...

the ergative suffixes and the absolutive clitics have merged into a single set of obligatory suffixes that express the person of both the ergative and...

Studies in Ergativity. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. p. 133. Van Valen, Robert D. (1981). "Grammatical Relations in Ergative Languages"...

singular ergative subject was -m. A third person plural ergative subject was marked with the suffix -it-, which, however, unlike the other ergative endings...

expressing genitive are marked in ergative for all persons. This suffix applies to all singular unpossessed nouns in the ergative case. Please note the underlying...

singular absolutive /ɜ/ - 3rd singular dative /n/ - 3rd ergative /tʷ/ - to give a /ɐ/ - ergative plural /n/ - present tense However, some words may be as...

language with ergative-absolutive case assignment and therefore has three argument types: absolutive, ergative, and dative. The ergative-absolutive language...