absolutive case

That something is then cast in the absolutive case.

More unusually, it has also been reported to have a rare marked absolutive case system.

The absolutive case is the citation form of a noun.

Because this resembles an absolutive case, it is often called a nominative-absolutive system.

Table 4 gives the possessive paradigm for the absolutive case of illu "house".

Personal pronouns in the absolutive case have two forms: disjunctive and enclitic.

The only argument of intransitive verbs stands in the unmarked absolutive case.

In Tsez the agent takes the ergative and the patient takes the absolutive case.

The examples below are in the absolutive case with zero case marking, and include the article only:

Note that Tlingit lacks an absolutive case, instead the absolutive argument is not marked.

The subject as well as the predicative noun stands in the absolutive case and is thus unmarked.

Depending on the specifics of the analysis, neither the ergative nor absolutive cases are necessarily marked by a specific suffix.

Most verbs agree in class and number with the noun in the phrase that is in the absolutive case.

"Set B" markers are used on verbs to agree with the transitive object or the intransitive subject (absolutive case).

Many verbs obligatorily classify an absolutive case.

For Absolutive case.

For example in Dyirbal the omitted argument in conjoined sentences must be in absolutive case.

This can be contrasted with the following sentence with an intransitive verb, where the subject takes the absolutive case:

Basque has an antipassive voice, which puts the agent into the absolutive case, but does not delete the absolutive object.

In such languages, the ergative case is typically marked (most salient), while the absolutive case is unmarked.

Number is only distinguished in the absolutive case, though verbal agreement may distinguish number when these nouns are in the ergative.

The absolutive case is formed from the base stem, and the other cases are formed from the oblique stem.

Absolutive case is used for patients of transitive verbs and subjects of intransitive verbs.

In contrast, the core argument of the intransitive clause and the object of the transitive clause have the same absolutive case.

Enclitic personal pronouns in the absolutive case (usually not syntactically connected to the noun, except for the third plural -lla); 11.