| Like the other case-marking postpositions in this language, the ergative is encliticised to the first word of the noun phrase. |
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| In Kalaallisut for example the ergative case is used to mark subjects of transitive verbs and possessors of nouns. |
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| In this language, the ergative is simply the oblique stem of the noun. |
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| Based on the traditional assumption that the ergative construction is the underlying construction and the ergative is the subject, the passive can be described as follows. |
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| In other analyses of Cariban languages it has been claimed that the oblique marking of the agent of a transitive verb is indicative of ergative syntax. |
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| Both accusative and ergative systems use this kind of grouping to make meaning clearer. |
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| A few Australian languages, such as Diyari, are split among accusative, ergative, and tripartite alignment, depending on animacy. |
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| This means that ergative verbs are always used transitively in middles and it explains why other transitive verbs can also occur in middles. |
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| There are prevocalic and preconsonantal allomorphs of the ergative markers. |
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| However, the classification of languages as belonging to the accusative type, the ergative type, etc. |
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| The ergative constructions exhibit a pattern of split ergativity based on a person hierarchy. |
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| The object of a transitive ergative verb is the subject of the corresponding intransitive ergative verb. |
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| There are some languages in which the ergative is not acquired as quickly or as easily as described above. |
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| Some languages, called ergative, Gamilaraay among them, distinguish instead between Agents and Patients. |
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| The subject of a transitive verb receives a special case suffix, called the ergative case. |
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| Indeed, many languages that some thought had a VOS word order turn out to be ergative like Mayan. |
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| Unergatives that assign ergative, unaccusatives that assign accusative. |
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| A large number of adjectives that are unergative according to the tests provided in Section 2 appear to be ergative with respect to their argument structure. |
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| The inventory of grammatical cases of the Tsezic languages typically includes the Absolutive, the Ergative, the Instrumental and the first and second Genitive. |
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