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Meaning of ergativo



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

ergativo
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In Linguistics it is the type of language or language, in which the subject is marked with differences, depending on whether it appears next to a transitive verb or an intransitive one. It is a characteristic of several languages or languages such as Basque, Mayan or Pano (Amahuaca or Yora).

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Elaborating on what says Jimeno Álvarez, ergative comes from the Greek ergon, action, and the verb ergadsomai, work, do produce. It is the case of the subject (the one who performs the action) of the transitive verbs in ergativas or absolutivas, as the Basque languages, Mayan languages, or cloth. In these languages the direct object of transitive verbs and the subject of the intransitive are in absolutive case.

  

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Jimeno Álvarez

1.-The ergative case is a grammatical case used in languages ergative-absolutivas (41 EA; to mark the subject of a transitive verb. In these languages, the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb instead often marked with absolutive case. 60; 62; 2-br is known as 40 ergative language; or ergative-absolutiva ) than that in which the subject of the nontransitive constructions is marked the same way as the object of the transitive, and the subject of the transitive marked in a different way. This type of language contrasts with nominative type.When the ergativas languages distinguish cases, the subject of a transitive corresponds to the ergative case and both of the transitive direct object and the subject of the intransitive correspond to the absolutive case.

  










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