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