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	Ergative verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An ergative verb is a special kind of verb which allows the object in a transitive clause to become the subject in an intransitive clause.
		In Dutch, ergative verbs are used in a way similar to English.
		The significance of the ergative verb is that it enables a writer or speaker not only to suppress the identity of the outside agent responsible for the particular process, but also to represent the affected party as in some way causing the action by which it is affected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ergative_verb (413 words)

	Ergative-absolutive language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An ergative-absolutive language (or simply ergative) is one that treats the agent of transitive verbs distinctly from the argument of intransitive verbs and the object of transitive verbs.
		The distinguishing feature of an ergative language is that it maintains an equivalence between the object of a transitive verb and the argument of an intransitive verb, while treating the agent of a transitive verb differently.
		Ergativity may be manifested through syntax in addition to through morphology, as there are no attested cases of syntactic ergativity in the world's languages occuring without also having morphological ergativity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ergative-absolutive_language (1230 words)

	Transitive verb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In grammar, a transitive verb is a verb that takes both a subject and an object.
		Unlike in the discussion of noun cases, ergative verbs refer to events that take place within or are directed towards the verb's subject - that is, the instrument of the verb is the subject.
		There are languages which distinguish verbs based on their ergativity and/or their transitivity, which suggests that these are salient linguistic features.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/t/tr/transitive_verb.html (254 words)

	Ergative-absolutive language: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The subject of a transitive verb is marked with a case conventionally known as "ergative (ergative: in ergative-absolutive languages, the ergative case identifies the subject of a transitive...
		The subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb are both marked with a case called "absolutive (absolutive: in ergative-absolutive languages, the absolutive case is used to mark the subject of...
		Ergative verb (Ergative verb: in the english language, an ergative verb is a verb whose action affects the subject,...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/ergative-absolutive_language (855 words)

	dstub
		In both the latter cases, the ergative coargument is not overt in the clause.
		Ergative arguments, including preverbal pronouns tend to be omitted at least as often as not, whether or not a plausible potential referent has been identified in the discourse.
		The primary perceived disadvantage of the ASH is one which also afflicts the theoretical analysis of 'deep ergative' languages and explains the desire of theoreticians to reduce ergative languages to accusative ones: why should semantically transitive predicates in these languages treat their most patient-like argument as grammatically the most prominent (i.e.
	www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au /lfg98/austro/dukes/nframes/dpart3.htm (3160 words)

	SOME FEATURES OF THE PREDICATE
		The central idea of verbs expressing a state is that of be and that of have when it means the same as possess.
		The verbs measure and weigh may be homonymous with active transitive verbs whose object is now the subject, and whose complement, a noun in an adverb of extent, is now an adverbial noun (cf.
		The verb may imply that this state is no longer applicable and that another state comes into being by virtue of the event.
	userpages.burgoyne.com /bdespain/grammar/gram171.htm (1064 words)

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		The verbs in (×NOC1/310×) and (×NOC3/111×) both have 1st person agreement, although the 1st person participant is an ergative©marked A in (×NOC1/310×) and an accusative©marked O in (×NOC3/111×).
		Since experiencer verbs are typically indifferent to the animacy of their Theme argument, this means that the Experiencer will be the most inherently topical, and thus the default subject.
		ÃÃThe syntax and morphology of the verb in ChepangÄÄ.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~delancey/sb/LECT7-8.DOC (7845 words)

	Ergativity in Suleimaniye Kurdish
		In the past tense, agreement is split along lines of transitivity: in a past-tense intransitive sentence, a Set 1 clitic on the verb indicates agreement with the subject; however, in a past-tense transitive sentence, a Set 1 clitic on the verb refers to the direct object of the verb, and not to the agent.
		That is, in the case of subject and agent, a clitic is required to appear on the verb (and then move off, in the case of past transitive verbs) regardless of whether or not an explicit subject or agent noun phrase is present in the sentence.
		Barjasteh's first argument is based on the fact that in some cases in Persian, the verb of the embedded clause may be either in the indicative mood or the subjunctive; his claim is that though this difference results in a change in meaning, the underlying representation is the same.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~rcfriend/ESK.htm (7249 words)

	[XTAG summary] tree families
		The discussion focussed on the ergatives and the ditransitives and their roles in the organization of the XTAG grammar and the notion of tree family.
		Purely transitive verbs then anchor the transitive-only family, while ergative verbs anchor the transitive family and the ergative family.
		This can then also be said to hold for the ergatives, for which the subject is NP1, representing the fact that the syntactic subject of an ergative verb is the logical object.
	www.cis.upenn.edu /~xtag/meetings/msg00079.html (1474 words)

	Intransitive verb: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In grammar (grammar: Studies of the formation of basic linguistic units), an intransitive verb is an action verb (verb: A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence) that takes no object.
		See also transitive verb (transitive verb: A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical) and ditransitive verb (ditransitive verb: in grammar, a ditransitive verb is a verb which takes a subject and two objects....
		In addition, ergative verb (ergative verb: in the english language, an ergative verb is a verb whose action affects the subject,...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/intransitive_verb (356 words)

	Sk'op Sotz'leb: Chapter Eight
		There is a construction that combines a transitive verb (with both a subject and an object) with an intransitive "auxiliary" root, which adds a sense of motion (or lack of motion) and intention to the action denoted by the transitive verb.
		Note that the imperative of a transitive verb with an auxiliary is marked twice: first on the intransitive verbs (with the suffix -an on the auxiliary) and second by the suffix for transitive imperatives.
		From the intransitive verb nop- a causative stem is derived with -es.
	www.zapata.org /Tzotzil/Chapters/chapt8a.html (4179 words)

	Passivisation of Ergative Verb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Considering the paired ergative verbs which have causative alternants, some researchers claim that passivisation of these verbs in some contexts is a grammatical error.
		ergative verbs” is a fairly recent discovery first identified by Perlmutter in 1978 in the context of “Unaccusative Hypothesis”.
		Besides, grammaticality of the structure with certain paired ergative verbs in some contexts is open to question since considerable number of native speakers of English seem to have different views about the matter.
	www20.uludag.edu.tr /~acan/studies/ergativpassive.htm (4807 words)

	GFs in Basque
		Basque is an ergative language, that means it is a language where subjects of transitive verbs (A) are marked for the ergative (Erg) case and subjects of intransitives (S) and direct objects of transitives (O) are both marked for the absolutive (Abs) case.
		Thus ergativity presents apparent difficulty for identifying morpho-syntactic properties of Subject and Object since not only subject arguments of transitive and intransitive verbs are marked differently, but, moreover, direct objects are marked in the same way as some subjects.
		We have shown in the paradigm in part I point 3 that dative verb inflection is suffixed to the form of the verb cross-referencing the dative-marked arguments.
	www.uiowa.edu /~linguist/classes/typology99/languages/Basque/GFs.html (1751 words)

	Old Skourene
		Verbs are declined largely by changing the vowels within an unchanging triconsonantal root.
		With verb pairs like fall/drop it’s easier to be confused; we don’t think of the subject of fall as something acted upon, though by comparison with drop it certainly is. When in doubt, consider whether the English verb can be followed by an object.
		The ergative is used for what we consider the subject of transitive verbs— and those only; the subject of intransitives is put in the absolutive.
	www.zompist.com /lenani.htm (7834 words)

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		Balinese is a 'syntactically ergative' language in the sense that the unmarked form of a monotransitive verb has a Theme subject and Agent complement.
		The ARG-S is inherited from the verb stem: canon-verb: SUBJ [1]
		Verbs are sorted into agentive voice (syntactically accusative) and objective voice (syntactically ergative): canon-verb -> AV-verb v OV-verb In a syntactically accusative verb stem (as in English, or Balinese AV verbs), the value of ARG-S is canonically the append of the values of SUBJ and COMPS, in that order.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~wechsler/balinese (2880 words)

	NHG Grammar: Ergative Verb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A verb which i) can appear in transitive and intranstitive constructions and ii) where the accusative complement of the transitive verb appears as the subject complement of the intransitive verb.
		The term ergative is derived from the Greek root erg- "to work" (e.g.
		Indo-European languages may have reflexes of an ergative system (note that the nominative and accusative of neuter o-stem nouns is formally related to the accusative of masculine o-stems), but IE languages (and therefore German) are overwhelmingly nominative in character.
	www.staff.ncl.ac.uk /jon.west/nhggr/nhggr_ergativeverb_data.htm (212 words)

	English Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A phrasal verb is an idiom which consists of a verb followed by a preposition, a verb followed by an adverb, or a verb followed by an adverb, followed by a preposition.
		In the case of a phrasal verb consisting of a verb followed by an adverb, the verb and the adverb usually may not be separated by an adverb of manner.
		The objects of the verbs and prepositions are underlined.
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/durrus/153/gramch27.html (4095 words)

	Argument Assignment
		Verbs such as die, which are intransitive and assign theme to its argument, are called unaccusative verbs.
		Perhaps the verb is focusing on the movement (theme) here as in (5), not on the source of locomotion (agent).
		If a verb assigns an agent and a theme, the theme is assigned to the complement (direct object) position of the verb--the position that is immediately to the right of the verb to the internal argument position (the internal argument position).
	www.sfu.ca /person/dearmond/322/322.argument.assignment.htm (376 words)

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		Ergative phenomena pose a formidable challenge to current syntactic theory.
		Ergativity splits the core syntactic role of subject along lines of verb transitivity; ergative subjects are marked for transitive verbs and absolutive subjects are marked for intransitive verbs (Dixon 1979, 1994).
		The absolutive further unites the objects of transitive verbs with the subjects of intransitive verbs.
	www.ku.edu /~pyersqr/Ling925 (436 words)

	Dave's Language Creation Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thus, the verb meant "to fortify", the verbal noun was "fortification", the utility noun was "(a/the) fortification or fort"...
		Finally, the ergative case is the name for a case that marks the subject of a transitive verb (not necessarily the agent) in ergative-absolutive languages.
		Thus, the case assigned to both the subject and object of a transitive verb is the duative, and the case assigned to the single argument of an intransitive verb is the unitive.
	dedalvs.free.fr /notes.html#ergativity (13069 words)

	Verbs - Glossary Definition - UsingEnglish.com
		Verbs are one of the major grammatical groups, and all sentences must contain one.
		Mood shows the attitude of the speaker about the verb, whether it is a declaration or an order.
		Verbs can be affected by person and number to show agreement with the subject.
	www.usingenglish.com /glossary/verb.html (180 words)

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