[er.ga.tive] adj [Gk ergates worker, fr. ergon work] (1939): of, relating to, or being a language (as Inuit or Georgian) in which the objects of transitive verbs and subjects of intransitive verbs are typically marked by the same linguistic forms; also: being an inflectional morpheme that typically marks the subject of a transitive verb in an ergative language
ERGATIVE
Meaning of ERGATIVE in English
Merriam-Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Merriam Webster. 2012