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<b><big> A. Ergative Case (ERG) </big></b><br> | <b><big> A. Ergative Case (ERG) </big></b><br> | ||
The ERG case is used in marking the agent of a transitive verb. | The ERG case is used in marking the agent of a transitive verb and the subject of a relative clause. Depending on the noun's spelling, the nouns form their singular ERG form as follows:<br> | ||
'''1.''' If the noun ends in a silent -e, it don't really change form.<br> | |||
Trive ''tree'' → Trive<br><br> | |||
'''2.''' If the noun ends with a silent consonant, a silent -e is added.<br> | |||
Lant [lɑ̃] ''country'' → Lant'''e''' [lɑ̃t]<br><br> | |||
'''3.''' If the noun ends in a consonant phoneme | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||