Ergative Case

In ergative-absolutive languages, the ergative case identifies the subject of a transitive verb. In such languages, the ergative case is typically marked (most salient), while the absolutive case is unmarked. New work in case theory has vigorously supported the idea that ergative case identifies the agent(aka intentful does of action) of a verb (Woolford 2004). Furthermore, the agent has been shown to have a fixed location in which it's base generated, in the spec of a light-verb projection within X-bar theory. Certain Australian languages possess an intransitive case and an accusative case along with an ergative case, and lack an absolutive case.

See also

Sources: Woolfird, Ellen. Lexical Case, Inherent Case, and Argument Structure. Aug. 2004 Online: http://people.umass.edu/ellenw/

 

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