Ergative-Absolutive Case-Marking System
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:10PM
The sole argument of an intransitive sentence (S) and the theme argument of the transitive sentence (P) receive the same case marking, Absolutive, whereas the agent argument of a transitive sentence (A) is marked differently as Ergative. (syntax)
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