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Isolating Synthetic Fusional Agglutinative Polysynthetic Oligosynthetic Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative
Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive...
- In linguistics,
morphosyntactic alignment is the
grammatical relationship between arguments—specifically,
between the two
arguments (in English, subject...
- An
exponent is a
phonological manifestation of a
morphosyntactic property. In non-technical language, it is the
expression of one or more grammatical...
- is
typical of an Indo-European language,
English follows accusative morphosyntactic alignment.
Unlike other Indo-European
languages though,
English has...
- (also
split intransitive alignment or
semantic alignment) is a type of
morphosyntactic alignment in
which the sole
argument ("subject") of an intransitive...
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Languages are
categorized into
several case systems,
based on
their morphosyntactic alignment—how they
group verb
agents and
patients into cases: Nominative–accusative...
- In
linguistic typology,
tripartite alignment is a type of
morphosyntactic alignment in
which the main
argument ('subject') of an
intransitive verb, the...
- In linguistics, an
unaccusative verb is an
intransitive verb
whose grammatical subject is not a
semantic agent. In
other words, the
subject does not actively...
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Animacy (antonym: inanimacy) is a
grammatical and
semantic feature,
existing in some languages,
expressing how
sentient or
alive the
referent of a noun...
- systems. Direct-inverse
systems on
verbs coexist with the
various morphosyntactic alignments in nouns. In some
inverse languages,
including all Mesoamerican...