ABSOLUTIVE


Meaning of ABSOLUTIVE in English

Pronunciation: ˌ ab-s ə - ' lü-tiv

Function: adjective

Date: 1948

: of, relating to, or being an inflectional morpheme that typically marks the subject of an intransitive verb or the direct object of a transitive verb in an ergative language

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