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Ergativity refers to a relationship between case and transitivity in a language, whereby the subjects of intransitive verbs and the objects of transitive verbs take the same case marker.
Title: Ergativity
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Ergativity refers to a relationship between case and transitivity in a language, whereby the subjects of intransitive verbs and the objects of transitive verbs take the same case marker.
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