ERGATIVE


Meaning of ERGATIVE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈər-gə-tiv ]

adjective

Etymology: Greek ergatēs worker, from ergon work

Date: 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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.