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alternate case: nominative–accusative alignment
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pronouns are usually in the nominative case for languages with a nominative–accusative alignment pattern. On the other hand, a language with an ergative-absolutiveMarked nominative alignment (695 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
alignment similar to, and often considered a subtype of, a nominative–accusative alignment. In a prototypical nominative–accusative language with a grammaticalDirect case (394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the direct case for S and A and the oblique case for O (a nominative–accusative alignment), and, in the past tense, the direct for S and O and the obliqueKwomtari language (397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
language has an SOV[clarification needed] constituent order and nominative–accusative alignment. Both subjects and objects are marked suffixally on the verbPanare language (1,221 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ergative–absolutive alignment in the non-perfective aspects and a nominative–accusative alignment in perfective aspect. Panare is a member of the Cariban languageCase in tiers (420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is the characteristic one for the language in question. For nominative–accusative alignment, the structural cases are assigned from left to right, withTransitive alignment (450 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is marked, the other two roles are not – that is, a typical nominative–accusative alignment. Intransitive: no case marking az-um I(ABS)-1SG pa to XaraɣGunbarlang language (613 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
marked on nouns and free pronouns, but bound pronouns follow nominative-accusative alignment. Gunbarlang distinguishes five noun classes on demonstrativesSplit ergativity (1,663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
PRF sleep-1SG.B 'I slept.' In imperfective aspect, Chol has nominative–accusative alignment: the subject of the intransitive verb is expressed by a prefixedRushani language (589 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is marked, the other two roles are not – that is, a typical nominative–accusative alignment. See transitive alignment for examples. Zarubin, I.I. BartangskieYazghulami language (1,166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
tense clauses and all pronouns in non-past tense clauses show nominative-accusative alignment. Morphological marking of core cases does not occur on nounsVamale language (2,165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
co-occur with the subject index (not the object ones). They show nominative-accusative alignment regardless of the verb’s class. le= 3PL= vavi-a hunt.TR-3SGSwitch-reference (3,364 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
switch-reference, subject is defined as it is for languages with a nominative–accusative alignment: a subject is the sole argument of an intransitive clause orLinguistic typology (3,564 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
problematic claims. Another common classification distinguishes nominative–accusative alignment patterns and ergative–absolutive ones. In a language with casesOld Telugu (1,151 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The structure of Old Telugu sentences typically involved nominative-accusative alignment, with case markers indicating the grammatical roles of nounsTotonacan languages (4,157 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
languages are highly agglutinative and polysynthetic with nominative/accusative alignment and a flexible constituent order governed by information structureKayapo language (3,267 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Prototypically, finite matrix clauses in Mẽbêngôkre have a nominative–accusative alignment pattern, whereby the agents of transitive verbs (A) and theZaza language (4,724 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
demonstrating ergative marking in past and perfective contexts, and nominative-accusative alignment otherwise. Syntactically it is nominative-accusative. AmongGeorgian grammar (5,007 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
within the sentence, and agreement marks in the verb complex. Nominative–accusative alignment is one of the two major morphosyntactic alignments, along withCase role (4,093 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Schematic representation of nominative-accusative alignment. Subject of intransitive verb (S) and subject of transitive verb (A) are treated similarlyOtomi language (8,896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of stative verb conjugation in Toluca Otomi: Otomi has the nominative–accusative alignment, but by one analysis there are traces of an emergent active–stativeClassical Nahuatl grammar (17,121 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
which agree with their subjects. Classical Nahuatl displays nominative–accusative alignment, and transitive verbs thus take distinct a set of prefixesJudaeo-Spanish (10,239 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
generally follows a subject–verb–object word order, has a nominative-accusative alignment, and is considered a fusional or inflected language. Two Israeli