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ergative-absolutive

adj

Definitions

  1. Being or relating to a language where the single argument (subject) of an intransitive…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ergative-absolutive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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