🔤 Ergativity ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
ergative nisbat ki khasusiyat, fail aur mafool ke grammer ka nizam
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ENGLISH
📚noun
ergativity
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /ˌɜːrɡəˈtɪvəti/
Phonetic: /er guh tiv i tee/
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DEFINITION
a grammatical alignment treating transitive subjects differently from intransitive subjects
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
Linguists study ergativity in many Indigenous and Caucasian languages worldwide.
Ergativity affects how subjects receive grammatical case in certain languages.
The professor explained ergativity using clear examples from Basque sentences.
Researchers compared ergativity patterns across several unrelated language families carefully.
Understanding ergativity helps students analyze complex grammatical alignment systems accurately.
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SYNONYMS
ergative alignment
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ANTONYMS
accusativity
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