Comparative Concept: ergative category (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
ergative category (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | ergative category |
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Definition
the morphosyntactic category in the ergative alignment system that exclusively expresses the A role. Example: The Yuwaalaraay flag -gu exclusively expresses the A role, and hence is an ergative flag. (Section 6.3.1)