ergative
- Adjective. (grammar) Used of various situations where the subject of transitive constructions have different grammatical cases or thematic relations to those of intransitive constructions.
- Noun. (linguistics) the ergative case.
- Noun. (linguistics) an ergative verb or other expression.
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