Below are given examples of the use of the possessive inflection, the use of the ergative case for possessors and the use of fourth person possessors.
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His generalization states that even when ergative case may go on the subject of an intransitive clause, ergative case will not appear on a derived subject.
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His generalization states that even when ergative case may go on the subject of an intransitive clause, ergative case will not appear on a derived subject.
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The connection between the Northeast and North-central families was based on claimed similarities in phonetics and grammar, such as sentence structure and an ergative case system.
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In the conjoined sentence the omitted argument ( the man ) would have to be in ergative case, being the agent of a transitive verb ( to see ).
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Georgian also has an ergative alignment, but the agent is only marked with the ergative case in the perfective aspect ( also known as the " aorist screeve " ).
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In fact, there are a number of languages that have a two-case system, such as Yagnobi, an Iranian language, has both an accusative and ergative case.
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As another example, the linguist Larry Trask argues that the ergative case system of the Basque language is not a simple binary parameter, and that different languages can have different levels of ergativity.
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The "'ergative-genitive case "'is a grammatical case which combines the senses of the ergative case and the genitive case, transmitting the ideas of acting and possessing something.
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The nominative pronoun root in this instance, " ngagun "'I', takes the ergative case suffix "-yi " to denote the fact that it is the agent of a transitive clause.
