Morphosyntactic alignment
Morphosyntactic alignment Linguistic typology Morphological Analytic Synthetic Fusional Agglutinative Polysynthetic Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative-accusative Ergative-absolutive Active-stative Tripartite ... Place Place Manner Time edit In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the system used to ...
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Talk:Morphosyntactic alignment
Talk:Morphosyntactic alignment I rewrote this page in an attempt ... could not be bothered to learn about "morphosyntactic alignment" in the first place. The page needs ... the concept can be grasped more easily. Morphosyntactic alignment is not exactly an issue ...
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Georgian grammar
... with Latin letters will be used throughout. Morphosyntactic alignment Georgian syntax and verb agreement are those ... marks in the verb complex. Nominative-accusative alignment is the most common in the world ... does not always coincide with the syntactic alignment. Georgian has split ergativity; morphologically speaking, it ... behaviour of these verbs follows an active alignment. In an active language, the subject ...
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Active-stative language
... typology Morphological Analytic Synthetic Fusional Agglutinative Polysynthetic Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative-accusative Ergative-absolutive Active-stative Tripartite ... field of study; in other times active alignment was not recognized as such, and was ... show complications and special cases ("pure" active alignment is an ideal). Therefore, the terminology used ... complications of this basic pattern, including active alignment in some verb paradigms. Tsova-Tush , ...
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Talk:Theta role
... theta role) is inconsistent with the article Morphosyntactic alignment. The article theta role describes "experiencer" in semantic terms, while the article Morphosyntactic alignment says that the main argument of an ... but my humble opinion is that the Morphosyntactic alignment article needs some work. It' ...
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Ergative-absolutive language
... typology Morphological Analytic Synthetic Fusional Agglutinative Polysynthetic Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative-accusative Ergative-absolutive Active-stative Tripartite ... accusative O S intrans S trans See morphosyntactic alignment for a more technical explanation and a ... on nouns. Georgian also has an ergative alignment, but the subject is only marked ...
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Ditransitive verb
... for the indirect object (but this morphological alignment is not unique; see below). In languages ... I will name him Galahad. Ditransitive/monotransitive alignment Just as the way the arguments of ... allows one sort of typological classification, the alignment between arguments of monotransitive and ditransitive verbs ... T, others have P=R See also Morphosyntactic alignment Dechticaetiative language References "Alignment of ditransitive ...
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Accusative case
... case Translative case Vialis case Vocative case Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive case Accusative case Ergative case Instrumental ... the accusative and the partitive case. In morphosyntactic alignment terms, both perform the accusative function, but ... to den in accusative case. See also Morphosyntactic alignment. The case in Latin The ...
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Linguistic typology
... typology Morphological Analytic Synthetic Fusional Agglutinative Polysynthetic Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative-accusative Ergative-absolutive Active-stative Tripartite ... features. Linguistic typology includes morphological, syntactic (sometimes "morphosyntactic"), and phonological typology. Typological classification of languages ... tense called aorist is used. See also: morphosyntactic alignment. External links Association for Linguistic Typology ...
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Direct-inverse language
... typology Morphological Analytic Synthetic Fusional Agglutinative Polysynthetic Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative-accusative Ergative-absolutive Active-stative Tripartite ... A direct-inverse language is one where morphosyntactic markers vary according to compliance or non ... systems on verbs coexist with the various morphosyntactic alignments in nouns. References Mithun, Marianne (1999 ... Navajo TYPOLOGY 5, Argument Structure and its Morphosyntactic Representation: Nominative/Accusative, Ergative/Absolutive, Active/ ...
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