- In grammar, the
accusative case (abbreviated ACC) of a noun is the
grammatical case used to
receive the
direct object of a
transitive verb. In the English...
- The
accusative absolute is a
grammatical construction found in some languages. It is an
absolute construction found in the
accusative case. In ancient...
- In
linguistic typology, nominative–
accusative alignment is a type of
morphosyntactic alignment in
which subjects of
intransitive verbs are
treated like...
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represent the perceiver, and the
accusative pronouns me/them
represent the
phenomenon perceived. Here,
nominative and
accusative are cases, that is, categories...
- In grammar,
accusative and
infinitive (also
Accusativus ****
infinitivo or
accusative plus infinitive,
frequently abbreviated ACI or A+I) is the name for...
- In linguistics, a
cognate object (also
known as a
cognate accusative or an
internal accusative) is a verb's
object which is
etymologically related to the...
- Examples: *kʷetwóres < *kʷétwores "four" (Latin: quattuor)
singular accusatives, of r-stems, *swes-ór-m̥ < *swés-or-m̥ "sister" acc.
singular of r-stems...
- groups:
those that are
morphologically ergative but
syntactically behave as
accusative (for instance, Basque,
Pashto and Urdu) and
those that, on top of being...
-
modern English grammarians,
where it
supplanted Old English's
dative and
accusative. When the two
terms are contrasted, they
differ in the
ability of a word...
- An
ambitransitive verb is a verb that is both
intransitive and transitive.: 4 This verb may or may not
require a
direct object.
English has many ambitransitive...
