Comparative Concept: ergative alignment (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
ergative alignment (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | ergative alignment • ergative alignment (system) • ergative alignment system |
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a system in which the S and P roles are expressed with the same form, but the A role is expressed with a different form. Example: in Yuwaalaraay, argument phrases expressing the A role use the Ergative flag -gu, but argument phrases expressing both the S and P roles use the zero-coded Absolutive flag. (Section 6.3.1)