| 1. | The ergative case is the case of subjects of transitive verbs.
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| 2. | Tboli pronouns indicate ergative case system in other Philippine languages.
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| 3. | Other languages that use the ergative case are Tibetan.
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| 4. | The ergative case is identical to the instrumental.
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| 5. | It has a split-ergative case marking system, consistent with neighbouring languages.
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| 6. | The ergative case takes on the case marker indicated by [-ne ].
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| 7. | Also, this ergative case apparently had a distinct form only for neuter nouns.
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| 8. | For the subject of a transitive verb, however, the ergative case is used.
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| 9. | The possessor is in the ergative case.
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| 10. | The agent also loses ergative case marking as an adjunct and acquires ablative case instead.
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