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What does absolutive mean?

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Adjective
  1. (grammar) Of or pertaining to the grammatical case used to indicate the patient or experiencer of a verb’s action.
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The absolutive inflections cross-reference subjects of intransitive verbs, direct objects of transitive verbs and subjects of nonverbal predicates.
The inventory of grammatical cases of the Tsezic languages typically includes the Absolutive, the Ergative, the Instrumental and the first and second Genitive.
Happen is represented as having the valency of an absolutive functor and a locative.

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