unergative
adj/ʌnˈɜːɡətɪv/UK/ʌnˈɝɡətɪv/US
Etymology
From un- + ergative, from the fact that in an ergative-absolutive language, the only case which uniquely identifies a volitional argument is the ergative case, which marks the agent of a transitive verb.
Definitions
Intransitive and having an agent as its subject.
An unergative verb.
The neighborhood
- antonymunaccusative
- antonymtransitive
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for unergative. 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