ergative case

For the subject of a transitive verb, however, the ergative case is used.

The ergative case is identical to the instrumental.

Relative case, playing the role of both genitive case and ergative case.

It contrasts with the marked ergative case, which marks the subject of a transitive verb.

The nominative case of men in Georgian is constructed as, k'ats+eb+i, while the ergative case would be, k'ats+eb+ma.

The ergative case is the case of subjects of transitive verbs.

The subject of a transitive verb receives a special case suffix, called the ergative case.

The ergative case is also a feature of some constructed languages such as Na'vi and Ithkuil.

The ergative case marker is -ny.

The agent also loses ergative case marking as an adjunct and acquires ablative case instead.

For Ergative case.

Causatives are doubly marked for ergative case:

The subject of the transitive verb is marked differently, with the ergative case (shown by the suffix -k).

Conversely, the same pronoun does not take the ergative case when acting as the argument of an intransitive clause:

In Greenlandic the ergative case is used for agents of transitive verbs and for possessors.

Lepcha is an ergative language, where the ergative case indicates transitivity and completedness of the event.

In such languages, the ergative case is typically marked (most salient), while the absolutive case is unmarked.

In the conjoined sentence the omitted argument (the man) would have to be in ergative case, being the agent of a transitive verb (to see).

The nature of the absolutive and ergative cases is as in other ergative languages (more details in the section Syntax below).

In the aorist series, the subject is in the ergative case while the direct object is in the nominative case.

However, they inflect for ergative case as well, resulting in a tripartite case system, as in the following:

The ergative case inflects 3rd person nominals only when the direct object is 1st or 2nd person (examples below are from the Umatilla dialect).

"Set A" markers are used on nouns to mark possessor agreement, and on verbs to agree with the transitive subject (ergative case).

The agent of a transitive verb (A) is marked as ergative case, or as a similar case such as oblique.

In transitive phrases, the word order is mainly SVO, in which the ergative case marking system tends to be used.