ergative
adjEtymology
From Ancient Greek ἐργᾰ́της (ergắtēs, “labourer, worker”) + English -ive (suffix meaning ‘belong or relating to; of the nature of; serving to; tending to’ forming adjectives).
Definitions
With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic…
With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of an intransitive construction.
- The case systems of ergative languages are counter-intuitive to speakers of many Indo-European languages.
Ellipsis of ergative case (“a grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive…
Ellipsis of ergative case (“a grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages”).
An ergative verb or other expression.
- Unlike those with subjectivized ergatives, such locative clauses naturally do not allow for imperatives (*Contain the apples).
- Ergatives share close similarities with agentless passives: Both are intransitive, both lack an agent, while the patient appears in the subject position. As the acquisition data show, learners seem to treat ergatives like passives.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for ergative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA