ergative

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

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