Comparative Concept: absolutive category (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
absolutive category (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | absolutive category |
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Definition
the category in the ergative alignment strategy that co-expresses both S and P roles. Example: Yuwaalaraay argument phrases use the same zero - flag to express the S and P roles, and hence this is an absolutive flag. (Section 6.3.1)