ergativity
- a word derived from ergative.
Example Sentences
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Rare is the big-budget adventure, however, that retains a linguist specializing in syntax, morphology, ergativity and nominalization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2016
“Do you know what ergativity is?” he asked her, referring to a property of some languages, including Hindi, by which a verb’s subject changes case when the verb is intransitive.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2012
