For the ergative case there are two variants of person markers a stressed and an unstressed.
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Both are in the unmarked absolutive case; the subject of the transitive sentence is in the ergative case.
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Conversely, the same pronoun does not take the ergative case when acting as the argument of an intransitive clause:
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However, they inflect for ergative case as well, resulting in a tripartite case system, as in the following:
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In transitive phrases, the word order is mainly SVO, in which the ergative case marking system tends to be used.
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While the nominal case system distinguishes the ergative case from absolutive, the free pronouns distinguish nominative from accusative, as shown above.
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However, the anti-ergative case markings can not be reconstructed at higher levels in the family and are thought to be innovations.
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If the subject of a transitive verb is marked ergative case, then the auxiliary can only agree with the direct object of the verb.
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The subject of the transitive verb is marked differently, with the ergative case ( shown by the suffix "-k " ).
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In Hindi, volition can be expressed with certain verbs, when the subject did something on purpose the subject noun gets the ergative case suffix.
